Archive for May 24th, 2009

Doctor Obvious Strikes Again

Published by swansont on May 24, 2009 under Other science

Brain research shows past experience is invaluable for complex decision making

Still, it’s good to get scientific results to corroborate this, because “conventional” wisdom isn’t always right, and then there’s the benefit of discovering details of the mechanism.

What we have found is that learning from past experience actually rewires our brains so that we can categorise the things we are looking at, and respond appropriately to them in any context.

Dem DAMOP Days Done

Published by swansont on May 24, 2009 under Conference stories, Physics

The conference is over. I’ll post some thoughts later, after I’ve recovered. Fortunately, Chad has already posted a summary of Day One, Day Two and most of the rest. I attended a few of the same sessions, so there’s not too much to add. I haven’t attended a DAMOP since 2000, so I’m not anywhere close to being caught up on a lot of the physics.

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