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| Would work fine for jobs or deadlines, as long as the deadline isn't always in a day or two.
Striving to focus on important problems instead of just urgent problems would work fine with this method. |
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| Perhaps. One would have to dig themselves out of perpetually having a deadline a day or week ago, which is usually the reason one's looking for ways to improve productivity in the first place. |
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| Coding nightmares! I get these too, when working too much. Perseverating on solving intractable problems that don't exist. Once solved it though, and woke up thrilled. That was a good work-night. |
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| The one ticket only is how it is done at my current job (except in support, which is a whole new hell) and I hate how it actively deters me from using my brain (and time) efficiently. |
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| My previous team's Scrum master kept bugging me because I had multiple tickets open most of the time. As if I were a child that could not manage his own tasks. I left as soon ia could. |
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| This sounds like me but exactly at the opposite hour - late at night
That being said the pre req being that it's a problem I've already known about (and likely slept on) |
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| Hippocampal replay was the main subject of my dissertation. It has been studied primarily in rodents, but there have been a lot more human studies in the meantime.
My PhD proposal was to suggest that cognitive fatigue is an adaptive construct. Rather than reflect a depletion of glucose and that people can't function anymore, cognitive fatigue is a suggestion for the agent to go 'offline' and replay. Two of my collaborators wrote an extremely influential paper writing down a Q-learning equation for replay: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-018-0232-z |
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| This is amazing to hear.
Have you studied the hippocampus memory of hummingbirds much? Their glucose is consumed to preserve their extraordinary 3d spatial memory for all their food sources. --- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22357941/ "...analyses reveal that the HF in hummingbirds is significantly larger, relative to telencephalic volume, than any bird examined to date..." -- IMO the ability of the Hippocampal spatial 'compuiting' - is what consumes the glucose in what is their 'GeoPU' - and so to be able to think in a 3D volumetric space - not vector space - allows for such precise control where the positional coordinates of a food source have a heavy weaight in 3D and Temporal Memory - which is the same as how it can navigate in a 3D point space with its hovering... It Computes to Live and it Lives to Compute. GPU folks should be studying hummingbirds. Especially for AI patchfinding with sensor awareness - as some hummingbirds migrate ~2,000 miles from Chile to Canada. https://www.hummingbirdsplus.org/nature-blog-network/ruby-th... Now note how frequently this critter needs aerial refuling, and it needs to know the best and most efficient path to hop all the food-check-points over 2,000 miles https://i.imgur.com/3MvzmX9.png Hummingbirds can fuel expensive hovering flight completely with either exogenous glucose or fructose https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111... >By foraging frequently and fuelling hovering flight directly with ingested monosaccharides hummingbirds avoid the energetic tax associated with the cost of synthesis of fats from these sugars prior to their oxidation. Remarkably, hovering hummingbirds are able to utilize fructose and glucose equally, a physiological feat which no mammals are thought to match, and one that suggests novel physiological capacities for the oxidation of fructose by active muscle tissues in hummingbirds. The data presented here indicate hummingbirds enhance net energy intake though specialization of diet, behaviour, and, uniquely, metabolic physiology. -- now imagine the ripples that are running through the hippocampus thats maintaining this level of efficient precision of a Body that has near instant acceleration and precisice altitude control in a 3d volume. Hummingbirds are the most amazing critters. We should be studying humming birds glucose control through the HF, not rats. |
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| Try listening to “white noise” or sound-scapes - something that provides an endless blanket of sound without providing input that the brain has to actively process. |
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| I’ve been lucky enjoy to have been able to live around my unconscious. I made a conscious decision to allow my unconscious to guide me through life.
The original idea to do this came from Le Corbusier[1] who once described his process of working as being a phase of collecting details on a project, a phase of doing something else (allowing his unconscious to work on the project) and finally he would sit down and complete the project. The disadvantage is that I never know when inspiration hits and when exactly I will get something done. It’s important to be organised and have everything written down is my approach. Also I give myself time and room to explore possible solutions from seemingly unrelated areas - a kind of zen navigation[2] for project work. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier [2] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/667285-he-had-a-tremendous-... |
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| I do a bit of writing but also many other things including coding and art.
This isn’t something I would be doing/recommend if I were to be working in job where creativity isn’t a big part of the job. |
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| Something I've been wondering about - but have been unable to find any solid research on - is if it would be "optimal" to sleep immediately after any learning/training session, whether it be mental or physical, instead of just resting while still awake.
If sleep is the best state for the body to be in to consolidate memories, reduce fatigue, etc., then it would seem logical to try and be in the sleep state as much as possible. Obviously the difficult part is actually being able to fall asleep on command without using some kind of pharmaceutical, but I do think falling asleep quickly is something that can be learned: https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/want-to-fall-asleep-faste... |
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| Funnily enough I wonder if a burst of adrenaline after learning is effective. Kind of tricking your brain into thinking it just survived a dangerous situation and must retain whatever lead up to it. |
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| I think writing part from cache to hard disk is part of NREM sleep cycle (from the book Why we sleep)
REM is responsible for dreams, where it matches experiences from cache to long term storage IIRC |
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| Since this is processing of past events and future possibles during sleep, would it be fair to hypothesize that animals that sleep actively (appear to dream) are conscious when awake? |
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| You just described my ideal situation.
Covid shut down was the only time I've been fully remote, and I was MASSIVELY productive. Because I could manage my own schedule around how my brain works. |
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| So the brain will bundle fragment of experience, shrink or extend them and replay or even preplay it during the sleep.
Sounds like a superpower in daily life, but general routine in sleep. Magical |
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| I disagree that sleep is necessarily unconscious. It’s like a coma — but is the internal world still running? For instance, maybe we are conscious in different phases of sleep but not others. |
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| I think there's a medical difference between unconscious and sleeping. At least I don't think being forced unconscious by something (a bonk on the head) is like sleeping |
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| You weren't conscious of the sound before you were conscious of the sound. You can of course be conscious of things that you're not paying attention to, but in that case you know they're there. |
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| It's what LLMs are missing. They don't sleep. If only they could sleep, they would be able to make novel experiences stick past the context buffer. Sleep is like fine-tuning on previous interactions. |
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| well, "was selected-for over trillions of iterations", they said, "... by algorithms which were themselves selected-for"
"randomly" makes it sounds like some kind of miracle! |
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| After much thought I have decided that thought is central to this whole thing. Anybody who disagrees is dreaming.
EDIT Satire is lost on you people. |
Starting with my undergrad but fully committing to it by grad school, I (and several of my friends who went through similar programs in math/cs) have a strategy that uses this. If, for example, I had a new problem set in a math course, I would bash my head against it in the evening for an hour or two. I'd make an honest attempt but move on from problems quickly if I got stuck. I'd rarely get much done. Then, I'd do my best to get a good night's sleep (at least 7.5 hours quality sleep). In the morning I'd try the problems again first thing after coffee, and frequently found that I could do a significant portion of the problems, or at least make headway. This might be biased by the fact that I'm really much more of a morning person to begin with, but I know several people who use this strategy.