EricS wrote:
Here is one of several research stories that Elwyn Berlekamp told to
me during a visit to SFI many years ago in which I was his host (the
closest I will ever come to the experience of those who hosted Erdos).
We were just visited by an old friend of Mary's who has been
All,
Eric’s story confirms what I am beginning to think of as the second pragmatist
maxim:
All perception concerns the future.
From: Friam On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:20 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re:
I knew Bill Chase. He was a new assistant professor in the psych
department when I was a graduate student. Tragically he died young.
During his recruitment talk he said that people can remember letter
sequences by creating phrases. "For instance, they might remember 'BFG' by
using the phrase
A 60 second search found this behind a paywall:
William G Chase and Herbert A Simon. 1973. Perception in chess. Cognitive
psychology 4(1):55–81.
The abstract sounds right, but there were only three subjects in the study.
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 6:21 AM David Eric Smith
wrote:
>
Just getting to this one, days late….
> On Nov 15, 2023, at 8:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> I have not (yet) read this critically, the introduction just tweaked my
> (confirmation biased) interests:
>
> https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-brain.html
>
