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   Learn something every day

   

   McCrea (profile), Dec 6th, 2011 @ 8:45pm

   
   

   What's the 10,000 hour rule for mastery?

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   Re: Learn something every day

   

   Michael Ho (profile), Dec 6th, 2011 @ 11:42pm

   
   

   Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book (Outliers) that popularized the idea that if you practice something for at least 10,000 hours -- you'll achieve some degree of mastery in that activity.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)

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   Reworking strong memory pieces pulled in by senses

   

   Jose_X, Dec 15th, 2011 @ 2:16pm

   
   

   I associate REM with deep reliving of junk in my head. Reliving memories, generally, offers a way to overcome/change/re-script/re-associate other mental pieces ("negatives" or "positives") associated with those memories. To learn or relearn, for example, you "grab" the context that is the associated neurons/memories and then change the conclusion of the story. Eg, to learn the answer to a question, you might call in the question or the context that suggests that question and the provide a new answer ("answer" need not necessarily be an image or sound memory of the answer as written in a particular language like English). Anyway, dreaming is like wandering around your mind on strong impulses/memories. REM is just a vivid version of dreaming. The strong memories grab your attention when you are tired and your senses are taking a break. [This is a guess of course.]

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   Re: Reworking strong memory pieces pulled in by senses

   

   Michael Ho (profile), Dec 15th, 2011 @ 2:50pm

   
   

   the brain activity during sleep makes me wonder sometimes if artificial intelligence projects need to look into simulating sleep when developing artificial neural networks.... I'll have to search around a bit to see if any other animals have an REM stage of sleep..? I would be interesting if REM sleep was present in parrots/dolphins/chimps/etc...

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