This reminds me of this old Feynman video where he talks about how people use different methods in their heads when counting, seems relevant: https://youtu.be/Cj4y0EUlU-Y?t=135
Love it! I use something similar to remember long numbers. If a code or a pin has let's say 8 digits, I'm unable to remember it the normal way. So I remember the first digit in the inner voice, and the other 4 digits as a picture of the digits.
+ Rudolph Flesh, The Art Of Clear Thinking (1951). He has visualizations in there how people concepualize the months in a year as an ellipsis, and so on.
Interesting, for me it happens sometimes if I'm badly hungover. Instantly after closing my eyes, I start seeing cartoon-like shapes that rapidly mutate to something different. Usually it's faces of people. The shapes are very dim, and black and white. But I really do "see" them as they were there.
Now I want to attempt using the technique in TFA to improve this "skill", also interested in using this for falling asleep faster and maybe even to successfully using the WILD technique for lucid dreaming, which I was never able to do.
I think they mean peloton. It's not English, I believe it is French, meaning a group of bicyclers. In this context it refers to the peloton leading the race.+-
>I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?
You can, actually. When you click it, all of the roads that have street view are highlighted with blue color. In this mode you can just click on the roads to go to street view.
I saw once a support person from $COMPANY_I_WORK_IN ask a client to send their private key in email, so they could troubleshoot something. I pressed "Reply all" and called it out, and was yelled at later.
I wonder what model this site is using. FWIW I tried with ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 versions), and it does a better job (tried multiple times). On one attempt it even said the Floor name is misleading:
The given code is a C-style implementation of the "fast inverse square root" algorithm. This algorithm computes an approximation of the inverse square root of a given number (1/sqrt(x)). The code does not actually compute the floor of a floating-point number, so the function name "Floor" is misleading.
Text is broken into something called "tokens" [0] for GPT. It doesn't work on individual characters. That explains why it always fails these character counting questions.
