I just learned the mind palace technique to memorize stuff and wanna put it to use.

  • Confetti
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    382 years ago
    • Useful: Times tables/math formulas if you havent already.
    • Fun: the way to solve a rubik’s cube so you can show off
    • Provoked Gamer
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      72 years ago

      For the rubix cube one, besides showing off, it’s also fun to learn how to solve it and practicing to get faster and faster at solving it. It’s worth it.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        My problem is everything makes sense until the last face. The algorithms seem too abstract at that point; it is memorizing a thing vs intuiting a thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I got down to about a minute and then realized it would take a lot more time to get lower than that.

  • @[email protected]
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    672 years ago

    For day-to-day purposes, if you are used to Fahrenheit but not Celsius or vice versa, and all you want to do is get a rough sense of how warm or cold it is outside without having to do arithmetic involving fractions in your head, then remember that there are two temperatures in Celsius that are roughly the same in Fahrenheit but with their digits transposed: 16° C ~ 61° F, and 28° C ~ 82° F. You can then roughly interpolate/extrapolate by about 2° F for every 1° C.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      62 years ago

      Also freezing is 0 in Celsius, so 32f is 0c. That one always helps me. Not as useful for converting c to f.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      Bob and Doug Mackenzie thought me to roughly convert C to F by taking the temperature in Celsius, doubling it and then adding 30. It gets you in the ballpark.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    A completely random ordering of a deck of cards. You can have a deck pre-stacked in this order, learn some false shuffles, have someone pick a card and place it back anywhere they want without marking its location in any way, and when you inspect the deck you know exactly what their card is. And they’ll never guess that the way you did it was memorizing the order of every card in the deck.

    I’m sure there are a lot more advanced ways to take advantage of this, just a handy ability to have in your back pocket (literally).

    • TheHalc
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      72 years ago

      If you’re going to memorise a deck of cards, you’re better off learning something like the Mnemonica Stack as you can use it as the basis for a whole load of card tricks.

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    142 years ago

    Learn some alphabets of foreign languages. Russian is fun because some of the characters looks like English letters but have completely different sounds. Korean is also cool because it looks crazy complex but it’s actually extremely simple.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      I don’t know any Korean, but the Korean alphabet is by far the best writing system I’ve seen.

      The characters make the shape your mouth makes while annunciating that letter. It’s ingenious.

  • tinwhiskers
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    172 years ago

    Anyone who isn’t at least mildly interested that you know Morse code isn’t someone you want to know :-)

    Good filter technique.

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      I’ve never seen these flop at kareoke (if done with average competency):

      Jump around - cypress hill gang

      I will survive - Gloria Gaynor

      Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

      Billy Jean - Michael Jackson (many other covers)

      Shake it off - Taylor Swift

      Pick 1 of the above plus a Beatles song and you’re good for impromptu Kareoke.

      If you have a few days notice and a friend to plan with the options expand…

      • @[email protected]
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        142 years ago

        I tried Bohemian Rhapsody once at karaoke, realized quick that I did not have the range for that song.

      • HobbitFoot
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        22 years ago

        New Jersey state law requires everyone to sing along to Don’t Stop Believing.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I once chose Paradise By The Dashboard Light for karaoke and that was the only time I’ve ever done karaoke because I’m still embarrassed ten years later at how awful a choice it was. Great song, terrible for karaoke.

    • mosiacmango
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      82 years ago

      /24 and /32 are like 90% of the battle. 256 hosts and 1 host solves most issues.

    • @[email protected]
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      232 years ago

      Came here to say this. Instead of pronouncing your name on the phone, just read the NATO alphabets that constitute your name.

      • HSL
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        My problem is that I learned it in Dutch before I learned the international English version - and I can’t remember it in Swedish. Throwing in very typical Dutch names in a conversation happening in a different language can lead to confusion.

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        262 years ago

        My wife always gives me shit for trying to use this. Any job that involves communicating things like names or worse, random strings of letters, should train their staff to use it. Remember that part of the design was specifically to make it easier for people with English as a second language(or not at all) to still recognize the letters over potentially unreliable radio.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 years ago

          It can definitely come in handy speaking on the phone in all sorts of situations.

          At a job once, I was on the phone with a customer and was spelling something or giving a string of letters (can’t remember what exactly), and I was having trouble thinking of good words to use. “D as in… duck” not realizing that could’ve sounded like B as in buck or T as in tuck. “F as in…” (don’t say fuck don’t say-) “fu… fun.” “V as in… Vin Diesel.”

          Customer was laughing, so I think it went well.

    • Deez
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      22 years ago

      There are strange things done in the midnight sun

    • Tigbitties
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      12 years ago

      I’d do the sonnets first. Less cliche and you can learn one a day.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Baker’s ratios make my family think I’m a much better baker than I am.

      Basic risen bread (a “60% hydration bread” ): 100 parts by weight of flour, 60-70 parts liquid, 3 parts salt, 2 parts yeast. Use grams and scale it up by 5 (500g flour), use water or beer for the liquid, knead, let rise for an hour or so, shape, rest for 30min, then bake at 400F for about an hour or until the inside is around 190-200F, and LET IT COOL to sub-120F before you cut in. Or if you’re feeling fancy, use scalded and cooled milk, add 5-10 parts sugar, and swap out 10-20 parts of the liquid for melted but not hot butter - and you get a nice rich bread, half way to a brioche. Or go to 70-75 parts liquid, including some olive oil, and kneed for a long time, and you got a solid pizza dough.

      Quick breads: 2 parts flour, 2 parts liquid (including sugar), 1 part beaten egg, 1 part fat (oil or melted butter). This gives you a jumping if point for banana breads, pancakes, muffins, and scones. Add or withhold a little liquid to get the consistency you want for how you’re cooking it.