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Secrets of a Mind-Gamer

Secrets of a Mind-Gamer

People forage for memories in the same way birds forage for berries Humans move between ‘patches’ in their memory using the same strategy as bees flitting between flowers for pollen or birds searching among bushes for berries. Researchers at the University of Warwick and Indiana University have identified parallels between animals looking for food in the wild and humans searching for items within their memory – suggesting that people with the best ‘memory foraging’ strategies are better at recalling items. Scientists asked people to name as many animals as they could in three minutes and then compared the results with a classic model of optimal foraging in the real world, the marginal value theorem, which predicts how long animals will stay in one patch before jumping to another. Dr Thomas Hills, associate professor in the psychology department at the University of Warwick, said: “A bird’s food tends to be clumped together in a specific patch – for example on a bush laden with berries. “But then as this patch becomes depleted, they look elsewhere.

The Happiness Project The Visual Leap - About Visual Thinking >> Home • About Visual Thinking About Visual Thinking Visual thinking, also called visual learning, is a proven method of organizing ideas graphically - with concept maps, mind maps and webs. Scientifically based research demonstrates that visual learning techniques improve memory, organization, critical thinking and planning. Visual thinking is an intuitive and easy-to-learn strategy that works for many academic and professional projects. The more complex the task or idea, the more useful this approach can be. Visual Leap programs use visual thinking software as a learning tool, and this software accelerates the learning process. According to studies conducted by the Institute for the Advancement of Research in Education, visual learning techniques improve: Test scores Writing Proficiency Long-term Retention Reading Comprehension Thinking and Learning Skills Visual thinking is intuitive. Visual thinking is easy to learn. Joseph D. 37% of people are visual-spatial learners.

40+ Tips to Get the Most Out of Web Apps There’s so many things you can do from your browser, you could get by quite nicely without any other native apps. The internet is full of amazing web apps, ranging from powerful tools for enterprises to little tools that do one thing great. While the web apps and sites we love are powered by servers, usually running Linux with Apache, MySQL, and more, our browsers feel more like the “operating system” on which web apps run. We’ve gathered the best tips we can find to help you get the most out of web apps, both from the apps themselves and the browsers you use to access them. Accounts 1. You’ve likely already got way too many online accounts. Today, many apps let you sign up for a new account using your Twitter or Facebook account, and many others work with your Google account. You could signup manually, but 1-click is so much easier 2. Alas, everything doesn’t have a 1-click signup button. There’s a number of ways to keep your email more private. 3. 4. 5. Security 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Web.AppStorm | Web Applications Reviewed, Rounded Up & Explained Formal grammar I ran across the Wikipedia article on this subject today. While I found it fascinating and enthralling, it also took me about half an hour to properly decode the notation being used, so here I have interpreted it for the layman. What is a formal grammar? Symbols Begin with symbols. "a" "b" "W" etc. If we allow other special characters to be symbols, then we could also have: "_" "'" ";" etc. But our symbols could also be English words. "spectacular" "adventure" "heroes" A symbol in isolation does not need to mean anything. Alphabets A set of symbols is called an alphabet. Strings A string is a finite series of symbols. "cat" "misanthropy" "sfdggkklsl" If our alphabet contained special characters, then some more example strings might be: "__^(sdfsd_+_$%" "dd'dddddd" ";kfllfddf7777lskl¬¬" If, instead, our alphabet consisted of English words, then a string (or sentence) would simply be a series of words, such as "bucket July embarrass whatsoever isn't a the" Languages Grammars Formal definition So what? Bad:

The Back of the Napkin | DanRoam.com “Inspiring! It teaches you a new way of thinking in a few hours — what more could you ask from a book?” — Dan Heath,author of Made to Stick “With style and wit, Dan Roam has provided a smart, practical primer on the power of visual thinking. — Daniel H. “This book is a must read for managers and business leaders. — Temple Grandin,author of Thinking in Pictures “Anyone with a pen and a scrap of paper can work through complex business ideas — a remarkably comprehensive system of ideas.” — Publishers’ Weekly

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