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This indeed seems great.
Clinamenic
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Yeah I haven't heard of that one but it sounds awesome.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
So as of late I've been accreting a daily puzzle gauntlet, presently comprised of:
Wordle (all mental)
Worldle (no image)
Framed (strictly from memory)
Mathopolis Calculus (here I'll probably have to look up certain theorems and techniques)
But I just started the math one yesterday, and I suspect it may be defunct. Does anyone know of any daily math puzzles, preferably intermediate algebra, basic calculus or basic trigonometry? I'd also be interested in more advanced ones, but I may need to work my way up to those.
Wordle (all mental)
Worldle (no image)
Framed (strictly from memory)
Mathopolis Calculus (here I'll probably have to look up certain theorems and techniques)
But I just started the math one yesterday, and I suspect it may be defunct. Does anyone know of any daily math puzzles, preferably intermediate algebra, basic calculus or basic trigonometry? I'd also be interested in more advanced ones, but I may need to work my way up to those.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Ideally this could be a sort of a highly gamified, daily digest version of academic decathlon.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah I feel that way about certain puzzles too. For the ones I do like, like wordle and worldle, its because of A) the immediate gratification (I think its important to observe these life cycles / wave of gratification), and B) the exercise they occasion.
I was just introduced to the quasi-clinical neuropsychological term "idea density" and how it relates to normal trends of cognitive decline and the onset of dementia. I suspect these games could actually be quite healthy in this respect, perhaps especially if you restrict yourself to purely mental engagement with them, i.e. no recourse to supplemental materials.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
The notion of idea density, as I understand it, has to do with associational networks/clouds of ideas, and the navigation therethrough. Its plausible, although I don't know what kind of research exists here, that such networks qua memory banks may experience a certain atrophy in the prolonged absence of exercise.
But then again, my psychologist friend who is also fond of wordle and worldle says that his success in the latter game - which is about trying to guess the daily country, then getting feedback in the form of distance and direction away from the correct answer - is attributable to long-term memory, as he was very much into maps as a child.
But then again, my psychologist friend who is also fond of wordle and worldle says that his success in the latter game - which is about trying to guess the daily country, then getting feedback in the form of distance and direction away from the correct answer - is attributable to long-term memory, as he was very much into maps as a child.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
For my part, as I've documented in the substack posts, I've found it crucial, in the efforts of assimilating large volumes of information, to arouse one's own fascination in the subject matter, as if priming yourself to be more deeply impressed by the information you are engaging with.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Tangential caffeine-fueled thought while watching a lecture on computer networking: perhaps the human mind can be considered a stateful palimpsest of prior sensory impressions, and these residual impressions persist as imperfect simulations of the actual biophysical signals which effectively did the impressing.
Stateful here being a technical term in computer science wherein a memory of and continuity across packet exchange is maintained. Cookies exist in lieu of universal statefulness, I gather.
Stateful here being a technical term in computer science wherein a memory of and continuity across packet exchange is maintained. Cookies exist in lieu of universal statefulness, I gather.