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lil  ·  3150 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Help me learn new things! – Game Theory

What a great idea for Aaron Carroll, a guy with double vowels and two double consonants in his name.

Has anyone on hubski set about a random learning/study plan for themselves unrelated to a work-goal? Seems like an interesting idea. We are all learning all the time, but it is so extensive, random, and unfocussed.

It's nice to know something about something and then a little about a lot, just enough to open the door to more.

For example Time: "At the micro-level time is reversing, always."

I'm on a mailing list involving some smart people. This week all the talk was about this:

    Time is "stroboscopic", meaning synchronization is an illusion, there are just instantaneous events that occur in no time at all, but on some discontinuous scale.

    And that's just the beginning. Er, the continuation, since there are no beginnings at the micro-level. The thinker is Paul Borrill.

I'd like to be able to actually understand this:





OftenBen  ·  3150 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been working on French for a while now. Once I get to 50% fluency on the app I'm using, I'm going to pick up Italian.