I'm curious about this too. But, today (hopefully not to take this way off-topic [I don't want to be a prodigy at that now!:-) ], I mounted my mountain bike to my car in Tualatin, and drove north, and mostly followed the collectors up towards Northwest Portland. I'm again new at mountain biking and need to get my butt in shape, so it's a hobby I've fallen in love with again.
I'm no expert in "back roads" (ie, collectors in this case) but while travelling down a state highway 217 back home, traffic stopped. I'm no expert in direction, but I have travelled along the collectors here enough in a few short years to extimate the best combination. And to prove my lack of total prowess here, I took some roads that allowed me to travel up to 45 MPH, much faster than the highway traffic along 217. I learned when I got home that I made one error that added at least 2 miles to my trip. Was I a complete idiot? No. I just took the roads that felt right. In my estimation I made good time. I probably could have used an expert in the Portland area to tell me whether the route was the best (I didn't have Mapquest, Google Maps, or GPS, mind you). But I didn't do too bad, compared to how I would have done a couple years ago. I would have clung to the Freeways like my life depended on it.
Before reading the summary and (starting to read) the article, I found that I didn't do half bad.
After seeing this article, I realized that if I had spent most of my life learning these "back routes" I would have done pretty darn good. I didn't have a map fully visualized in my mind, but a feeling of the routes. One part of the article sparked interest for me:
"... In 1894 French psychologist Alfred Binet, the co-inventor of the first intelligence test, asked chess masters to describe how they played such games. He began with the hypothesis that they achieved an almost photographic image of the board, but he soon concluded that the visualization was much more abstract. Rather than seeing the knight's mane or the grain of the wood from which it is made, the master calls up only a general knowledge of where the piece stands in relation to other elements of the position. It is the same kind of implicit knowledge that the commuter has of the stops on a subway line...."
If I had to gauge my expertise on the area, I'm still a beginner, despite my years as a driver, and living in this area. But I think the above helps explain quite a bit.
Back to Mozart: How was he capable of touring a big chunk of Europe by ~6 on his talents? I don't think he had photographic memory of the score to play, he probably (even at an early age) had a feeling for each part. I am not a musician, but I bet with enough practice, I could gain a feeling for each piece and play it decently. I am sure Mozart mastered that and was able to give some of the best performances ever.
BTW, I have a friend at work, who, without any further cue than a request for one of many hundreds of songs (e.g. "Hey, play Hot Blooded by Foreigner!," or "Play Take a Picture by Filter!") and early memory of the song to produce it almost flawlessly on a grand piano. I always wondered how he could do it, and I'm starting to feel I understand how now.
I just did a few searches. One for "sex", another for "porn", and yet another for "Tiananmen" from the U.S. I ran these searches against google.cn, and got results including sexual and pornographic ones, and a result for Wikipedia's article on Tiananmen.
Despite hitting google.cn, I got pages I could access. The only difference is, I hit them from here in the U.S..
Does that mean Google's filter is failing at the.cn site? Or does that mean that filtering is done in China after Google.cn returns these results?
When I'd stop people from talking badly about a slutty girl in hopes that I would later get in her pants.
Maybe Bill is cozying up to Google to get some 'nookie'?:)
That's funny as hell!
But in all seriousness, did you know what you were getting yourself into?
Does Bill know what he is getting himself into?
This all sounds risky to me, IMHO. Bill may not just be cozying up to Google, but to China as well.
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More bad posts from me? :-D
Now talk about a paradox.
Heh heh, works on my machine...
Looks like I have the inherent talent of being offtopic, too!
I'm no expert in "back roads" (ie, collectors in this case) but while travelling down a state highway 217 back home, traffic stopped. I'm no expert in direction, but I have travelled along the collectors here enough in a few short years to extimate the best combination. And to prove my lack of total prowess here, I took some roads that allowed me to travel up to 45 MPH, much faster than the highway traffic along 217. I learned when I got home that I made one error that added at least 2 miles to my trip. Was I a complete idiot? No. I just took the roads that felt right. In my estimation I made good time. I probably could have used an expert in the Portland area to tell me whether the route was the best (I didn't have Mapquest, Google Maps, or GPS, mind you). But I didn't do too bad, compared to how I would have done a couple years ago. I would have clung to the Freeways like my life depended on it.
Before reading the summary and (starting to read) the article, I found that I didn't do half bad.
After seeing this article, I realized that if I had spent most of my life learning these "back routes" I would have done pretty darn good. I didn't have a map fully visualized in my mind, but a feeling of the routes. One part of the article sparked interest for me:
"... In 1894 French psychologist Alfred Binet, the co-inventor of the first intelligence test, asked chess masters to describe how they played such games. He began with the hypothesis that they achieved an almost photographic image of the board, but he soon concluded that the visualization was much more abstract. Rather than seeing the knight's mane or the grain of the wood from which it is made, the master calls up only a general knowledge of where the piece stands in relation to other elements of the position. It is the same kind of implicit knowledge that the commuter has of the stops on a subway line...."
If I had to gauge my expertise on the area, I'm still a beginner, despite my years as a driver, and living in this area. But I think the above helps explain quite a bit.
Back to Mozart: How was he capable of touring a big chunk of Europe by ~6 on his talents? I don't think he had photographic memory of the score to play, he probably (even at an early age) had a feeling for each part. I am not a musician, but I bet with enough practice, I could gain a feeling for each piece and play it decently. I am sure Mozart mastered that and was able to give some of the best performances ever.
BTW, I have a friend at work, who, without any further cue than a request for one of many hundreds of songs (e.g. "Hey, play Hot Blooded by Foreigner!," or "Play Take a Picture by Filter!") and early memory of the song to produce it almost flawlessly on a grand piano. I always wondered how he could do it, and I'm starting to feel I understand how now.
With enough effort, I'll be a prodigy at first posting!
I just did a few searches. One for "sex", another for "porn", and yet another for "Tiananmen" from the U.S. I ran these searches against google.cn, and got results including sexual and pornographic ones, and a result for Wikipedia's article on Tiananmen.
Despite hitting google.cn, I got pages I could access. The only difference is, I hit them from here in the U.S..
Does that mean Google's filter is failing at the .cn site? Or does that mean that filtering is done in China after Google.cn returns these results?
I think I must be missing something here.
Maybe Bill is cozying up to Google to get some 'nookie'? :)
That's funny as hell!
But in all seriousness, did you know what you were getting yourself into?
Does Bill know what he is getting himself into?
This all sounds risky to me, IMHO. Bill may not just be cozying up to Google, but to China as well.