10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning Human memory is not made of bits A large chunk of learning is about remembering. Yet a human's memory is quite different from a computer's memory. We commit to our memory what we want to remember often imprecisely. The addition of related or unrelated memories may distort it ("spreading activation"). Not to mention the fact that we constantly forget what we learned as long as we don't use it. Overall it is a haphazard event. ...

I'm spending a little time each day to read some traditional Chinese literature. Recently I've been interested in a book that can be dated to the early Zhou dynasty. I Ching was believed (by some) to be written by King Wen of Zhou when he was a prisoner at Youli, apparently before 1000 BC. If it is true, this is currently the oldest book that I've ever read. What I'd like to share today is some comment on the first stacked line of the hexagram qian (䷀) from Confucius. ...

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