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[Jan. 7th, 2007|04:42 pm] |
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memory interference principle: the more you know the harder it is to put new items into or retrieve them from your memory.
a remarkable dilemma follows from this principle: one one hand you want to know about a certain subject as much as possible in order to not miss any relevant information ( e.g. something that might lead to a solution); on the other hand you want to know very little about the subject in order to acquire new knowledge or effectively retrieve knowledge acquired previously.
no wonder socrates thought about all knowledge as recovered from one's immortal soul, not acquired. ( quote from Plato's Meno )
his method of questioning implied systematic destruction of irrelevant information, which allowed him and his subjects recover facts and considerations connected directly to the problem at hand. very similar to michelangelo's notion of removing extra marble to discover the beauty inside the rock.
also, relates to the four waves of problem solving approach. |
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| classical Haiku. Kobayashi Issa. |
[Jan. 7th, 2007|05:14 pm] |
むきむきに蛙のいとこはとこ哉
muki muki ni kawazu no itoko hatoko kana
facing everywhich way
frog cousins
and second-cousins
translated by David Lanoue
зырит озеро глаз -
лягухи лягушонки
да лягушатки! |
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| Даниил Хармс |
[Jan. 7th, 2007|09:17 pm] |
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Откажите, пожалуйста, ему в удовольствии
Сидеть на скамейке,
Сидеть на скамейке,
Сидеть на скамейке...
Откажите ему в удовольствии
Сидеть на скамейке и думать о пище,
Сидеть на скамейке и думать о пище, мясной непременно,
О водке, о пиве, о толстой еврейке.
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p.s. Даниил Хармс был арестован в августе 1941 года за распространение пораженческих настроений. Он умер в Ленинграде от истощения, в заключении в 1942 году. |
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[Jan. 7th, 2007|11:29 pm] |
Another example of the difference between invention and innovation:
1. invention, i.e. coming up with the original idea: The accepted inventor of the bank credit card was John Biggins at the Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn in New York. The year, 1946. Mr Biggins developed the "Charge-It" program in which local merchants who accepted the card would deposit sales slips into the bank and the bank billed the customer.
2. innovation, i.e. scaling/diffusing and monetizing the initial solution:
1958
Bank of America, based in San Francisco, California, issues BankAmericard. With the state of California as its market, the card is an early success, and it is the first “revolving-credit” card with universal merchant acceptance, allowing cardholders the option of paying their account balance in installments with a monthly finance charge applied to the remaining balance.
1976
BankAmericard changes its name to Visa, a simple, memorable name with an international flavor that is pronounced the same way in almost every language.
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