http://old.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030414numberman0413p5.asp
QT:{{”
Most people can remember between five and nine digits; unusual folks might recall 15 to 18.
Imagine the surprise of Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the late 1970s when they came across a student who could master 82 digits. …
A track and cross-country runner, Steve Faloon was accustomed to timed runs and, when forced to remember a string of numbers, tended to break them down into segments recognizable to him as typical times for a quarter mile, a mile, two miles, 10 kilometers, etc.
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Remembering numbers: All it takes is a system
January 6, 2018United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program – Wikipedia
January 6, 2018Top Gun
United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Strike_Fighter_Tactics_Instructor_program
Claude Shannon biography
January 6, 2018[category itunes0mg]
a biography of the late Claude Shannon, the mathematician and engineer (and recipient of a Yale honorary degree!).
book: Peak by Anders Ericsson
January 6, 2018https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise-ebook/dp/B011H56MKS
QT:{{” people get better at tasks by time
spent doing “deliberate practice”, as opposed to time spend doing the task less rigorously.
The recommendation for how to apply deliberate practice to task X is to find an expert in X and study them.
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Tweets on StorifyEOL
January 6, 2018Appears @Storify is ending its service. I’ve used it extensively for organizing Twitter favorites & crowd-sourced notetaking. Anyone know of good replacements? More thoughts on #StorifyEOL, incl. on robustifying personal workflows to “tech fashion” changes
https://Linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/StorifyEOL
https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/949688729211408385
https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/949689668865490944
Thoughts on Storify’s EOL StorifyEOL
January 6, 2018## The Event
https://www.fastcompany.com/40506878/why-the-once-darling-social-service-storify-is-coming-to-an-end
## Related to Tech Fashion ideas in
http://info.gersteinlab.org/SF_Chron_Oped_on_Geek_Chic_from_Other_Papers_for_M_Gerstein
## Potential Replacements
## More
Storify is no more, but a few alternatives exist
January 6, 2018QT:{{”
“Users can use Paper.li to tap into, and curate, some of today’s most trending topics from sources such as Facebook, Twitter, YoutTube and Google+ and other areas across the web. The program also allows anyone to share their curated content on social media platforms, and while the overall function of Paper.li is very similar to Storify, the way information is presented is quite different.”
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https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/storify-is-no-more-but-a-few-alternatives-exist/97764 https://paper.li/
How Storify Users Can Keep Their Content Before the Company Deletes It
January 6, 2018QT:{{”
“In response, Wakelet (a free tool that provides similar functionality to Storify) is quickly stepping up to give Storify users a new, free “home” for their content with no technical work-arounds or effort required.”
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How Storify Users Can Keep Their Content Before the Company Deletes It
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-storify-users-can-keep-their-content-before-the_us_5a4d10cce4b0df0de8b06eb6
