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'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems?
An anonymous reader writes "CBC news reports that the effectiveness of 'sleeping on it' when faced with a difficult task may have more than just anecdotal roots. 66 students were trained to perform a calculation on an eight digit number using two simple rules which would take seven steps to complete. A different method existed to perform the same calculation 'almost instantly', but was not shown to the students. After eight hours, where half the students were allowed to sleep and the other half remained awake, 60% of the rested and 22% of the wakeful students discovered the more efficient method."
Sleeping. What's it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?
What kind of a date is that? There are only 12 months in a year! Granted, there was once a Viz calendar with a free extra month, but even that only had 13 months in it!
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( from wikipedia )
"The chemist Kekule was the first to deduce the ring structure of benzene; after years of studying carbon bonding, benzene and related molecules, the solution to the benzene structure came to him in a dream of a snake eating its own tail. Upon waking was inspired to deduce the ring structure of benzene. "
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Ah, I wondered what it was that had happened on the ninth of november!
A day is smaller than a month. A month is inbetween a day and a year. A year is bigger than a month. Goes in order, see. Do you write the time hour:second:minute as well?
Look, ASSHOLE , if I'd cared about a well-ordered date I'd have put "20040114". But I don't. I only care, ASSHOLE , about mimicking "9-11-01". Get it, ASSHOLE ?
No, I don't think you're making sense. Could you explain it to us again, Mr. Relapse?
Better stop trying to think and resume whining about the evil terrorists, pussy American.
He's trying to explain that if you absolutely must have an ordered date format, then it should begin with the LARGEST unit, not the smallest. It's a poor excuse for the US format and their use of obsolete units, however. They're a country of whiners.
When we speak, here at least, we generally say the month, then the day, then the year: September 11, 2001. So writing it in the same order helps readability a little bit, even if it's numerically less sensible.
You have to remember that America prefers style to substance ; )
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Very good book series; I read those as a kid. I have to wonder how much of the series was grounded in reality-- I'm sure at least a good chunk of it was, considering the overall accuracy in results for each of Tom's stunts.
I'm amazed this made the news, though. I had assumed it a given that sleeping on something helped-- put your subconscious on it awhile, rest your body at the same time, and wake up refreshed and ready to tackle the problem.
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