The HS, Homo Sapiens, series of computers is the most difficult of all computers to work with. This is because it is a parallel, dual mode, computer. Sometimes, if you program one of the modes, the other mode will override the first mode resulting in nothing being done at all. In this presentation I will show you why it is difficult to program an HS series computer. You will learn what science knows about our brain, how we learn, how sleeping helps, and how biases affect us. You will also learn techniques to help improve your learning. Text version: http://anders.janmyr.com/2016/03/programming-hs-1969.html

1. Programming an
HS-1969
@andersjanmyr
anders.janmyr@jayway.com

2. Aha!

3. Outline
Insight
Obstacles Deep Learning
Shallow Learning

4. Insight

6. What is an insight?
Punchline of Jokes
Solutions to Riddles and Rebuses
Problem solutions
Realizations
Resolving inconsistencies
Thinking outside the box
Cross-Word Puzzles
Understanding People

7. Understanding

8. A window washer fell
from a 40 foot ladder
onto concrete and was
not harmed.
How is that possible?

9. Thiss
sentence
has thre
errors!

10. HOROBOD
A historical person

11. Andrew Wiles

12. Andrew Wiles

14. "9dots" by Blleininger - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9dots.svg#/media/File:9dots.svg
9 dots problem

15. When do we get insights?
The three B's

16. Eureka!
Eureka!

19. How do we
get insights?

20. The Four Stages of
Creativity
Preparation
Illumination
Verification
Incubation

21. It's what you have in
your memory-bank,
what you can recall
instantly, that is
important.
If you have to look it up,
it it worthless for
creative thinking.
--Linus Pauling

22. Know Many Diverse
Things

23. Deep
Learning

24. Working Memory
Long-term Memory

25. Encoding
Consolidation
Re-consolidation

26. Diffused
Focused

27. Chunk
A Piece of
Information
Learn
equals
Create Chunk
A cluster of
memory cells
that fire together

28. How to form a chunk?
1. Focus your undivided attention on the task.
2. Understand! Figure out the main idea. Relate
the idea to what you know.
3. Test yourself to verify that you understand.
4. Gain context, not only how but when to use it.

29. Big Chunks
Relating chunks
creates
Big Chunks
Big Chunks
don't use more
Working Memory

30. SimileMetaphor
You are my
sunshine
Strong as
an ox

31. Theory of Disuse
(Forget to learn)
RetrievalStorage
How well learned
Only Increases
How accessible
Varies with context
Retrieval increases both
storage and retrieval strength

32. Retrieval

33. Forest

34. Strong
Retrival
Strength
Weak Retrieval
Strength
Strong
Storage
Strength
How to ride a
bike
How to drive in
your
native country
Weak Storage
Strength
Something you
have recently
studied
The name of
someone you
just met at a
party

35. Ride a reversed bike

36. Spaced Repetition

37. Intervals

38. Optimal Timespan
Time to Test Optimal Interval
1 week 2 days
1 month 1 week
3 months 2 weeks
6 months 3 weeks
Second study session when studying three times for a test.
Three
tim
es

39. Context

40. Location

41. Intoxication

42. Music

43. Variation

44. Interleaving

45. Interleaving
Repetitions

46. Beanbag tossing

47. Desirable Difficulties

48. Testing

49. Classroom Testing

50. Self
Testing

51. Sleep

52. Being awake is toxic

54. Shallow
Learning

55. Perceptual Learning

56. Chicken Sexing

57. Flight Training
Perceptual Learning

58. Art
Perceptual Learning

59. Obstacles

60. The first principle is
that you must not
fool yourself -
and you are the
easiest person to
fool.
- Richard Feynman

61. Illusions
Understanding
of

62. Re-Reading

63. Highlighting

64. Looking
at the
answer

65. -ing

66. Echoing
other
peoples
words

67. Distractions

68. Pomodoro Technique

69. Procrastination
Now
Later

70. Start

71. Writing is the art
of applying the ass
to the seat
--Dorothy Parker

72. Insight

75. "9dots" by Blleininger - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9dots.svg#/media/File:9dots.svg
9 dots problem

76. "9dots" by Blleininger - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9dots.svg#/media/File:9dots.svg
9 dots problem

79. Summary

80. Programming an
HS-1969
@andersjanmyr
anders.janmyr@jayway.com
http://anders.janmyr.com/2016/03/
programming-hs-1969.html
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