learning 2.0

Very often when we’re processing information, we see things as we think they are, rather than they actually are. Attention is a very interesting phenomenon,”

Dunning-Kruger Effect : Knowing the limits of your intelligence requires a certain level of intelligence, so some people are too stupid to know how stupid they are.

means nearly 80% of unskilled students were fairly good at estimating their real ability – a far cry from the idea put forth by Dunning and Kruger that the unskilled consistently overestimate their skills.

Smell works at a distance; taste works through contact.

And while smell can be put to complex uses—navigating the open oceans, finding prey, and coordinating herds or colonies—taste is almost always used to make binary decisions about food. Yes or no? Good or bad? Consume or spit?

Odors, by contrast, “don’t carry meaning until you associate them with experiences,” Caprio says.

The Black Swan, the “Ludic Fallacy” refers to the misapplication of Stable Environment rules to an Unstable Environment. The word “Ludic” comes from the Latin word ludus, meaning “game,” as people falsely assume that the same strategies used to calculate probability within a game can be used in the real world.

Potato flour is used by professional bakers to improve breads and pastries by making them moister and retarding staling.

The only way to present what is conceivable but not representable is abstraction.