In one study, where they tried learning both ways, people felt like blocked practice was better, even though their ultimate performance was measurably better after the random practice!
Though you might improve at a task during practice, you’re less able to carry forth that improvement to the next day.
Studies have shown that consistently getting a full night’s sleep (eight hours) plays a huge role in learning motor and auditory skills
The surprising parts are usually the places that they did not account for in their mental practice.
Forget about the nasty passages for now. Instead, spend two weeks getting in touch with the musical aspect of the piece and practice it through, just for musicality.
The linked essay in the article also gives a timeline on how long in takes for neurons to connect: it takes about a week to happen.
Also: You will be much better off practicing your orchestra music for 15 minutes a day until the concert, rather than “wood-shedding” the day before the concert. Why? Because you’ll have all those nights of sleep for your brain to process the new music.
the best predictors of productivity were a team’s energy and engagement outside formal meetings
We’ve been able to foretell, for example, which teams will win a business plan contest, solely on the basis of data collected from team members wearing badges at a cocktail reception.
Individual reasoning and talent contribute far less to team success than one might expect.
* Social time turns out to be deeply critical to team performance, often accounting for more than 50% of positive changes in communication patterns, even in a setting as efficiency-focused as a call center.*
Our data also show that exploration and engagement, while both good, don’t easily coexist, because they require that the energy of team members be put to two different uses.
in a typical high-performance team, members are listening or speaking to the whole group only about half the time, and when addressing the whole group, each team member speaks for only his or her fair share of time, using brief, to-the-point statements.
making the tables in the company’s lunchroom longer, so that strangers sat together, had a huge impact.
The best-performing and most creative teams in our study, however, sought fresh perspectives constantly
we found that the more of these charismatic connectors a team had, the more successful it was.
Observation: I wish I had a tool for writing short notes on things I read. It seems I end up doing this in the form of HackerNews comments.
Make Arc use all cores. Although it's already multi-threaded, all threads use a single processor. Or make Arc scale out on multiple machines by modifying its webserver to shard based on username.
1. Realize it's impossibly unlikely for two people to build the same thing, even if they were sitting next to each other sharing their plans. The only competition is with yourself.
2. As a consequence: stop sprinting. Stop trying to release something inferior by a certain date out of fear of competition. There is no time pressure.
3. As a plan: work on what only you could do best.
I just realized I asked you the same question before.
If the server got hacked, could it send Javascript that steals a users password (which you say "never leaves your computer"), decrypts user data, and sends the password and the data to the attacker?
One special trick I've used is to write an idea down when I have it. Another is to write more often to unearth my ideas. What's more valuable that storing existing knowledge is generating new knowledge.
You won't reach your maximum potential if you only try keeping knowledge in your head.
The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated.
Without external aids, deep, sustained reasoning is
difficult.
- Don Norman
The problem with what you mention about Australia is regression to the mean. 'Market salary rate' means average salary, which is not what a great programmer is worth.
(1) You objected to the term "anti-immigration". If that phrase could be changed to something else that roughly means "oppose immigration" what phrase would you have used?
(2) If a phrase that you suggest is used, would this allow you to focus on the substance of the argument?
Though you might improve at a task during practice, you’re less able to carry forth that improvement to the next day.
Studies have shown that consistently getting a full night’s sleep (eight hours) plays a huge role in learning motor and auditory skills
The surprising parts are usually the places that they did not account for in their mental practice.
Forget about the nasty passages for now. Instead, spend two weeks getting in touch with the musical aspect of the piece and practice it through, just for musicality.
The linked essay in the article also gives a timeline on how long in takes for neurons to connect: it takes about a week to happen.
http://mollygebrian.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/what-musicia...
Also: You will be much better off practicing your orchestra music for 15 minutes a day until the concert, rather than “wood-shedding” the day before the concert. Why? Because you’ll have all those nights of sleep for your brain to process the new music.