Mental Exercises {Content}

Exercises for my neurons

Strategical games

• Go, cf StrategyLessons#Go
  • 24/10/2011 two pedagogical games at Outpost, 3 then 4 stones handicap on 13x13 goban
    • #21 frontiers, heuristics of 3 lines, importance of spoiling territories e.g. with corners, scoring and ranking potential positions subconsciously, paying attention to simple taken stones, memorization of games solely a matter of experience
    • #22 with handicap cover the attacks, difference between freedoms and shape, direction of game, center do not do points, splitting territories, recommended Go Child
  • 26/10/2011 two pedagogical games at Outpost, 3 then 4 stones handicap on 9x9 goban
    • #23 eyes, counting liberties, properly building territories, ...
    • #24 importance of connection, "connecter -> restraindre -> crever les yeux"

Online classes with quizzes or homework

• Stanford AIClass and MLClass

PIM Based Exercises

Generated via ImprovingPIM#PIMBasedExercises

Note that two identical scores in a very short period of time implies a loss.

gBrainy

• 27/07/11 : score unknown
  • note that memory games were not working because of the display setup

Khan Academy exercise dashboard

• 21/08/11 : score unknown
• 29/07/11 : score unknown
  • note that only very basics exercises were done to test how the system is working

Typing

Should this actually be here or in Exercises or even in both?

• 30/08/11 : briefly tried http://www.typeonline.co.uk/lesson1.html
• last training : end of May 2010 (previous usage was months ago)
  • add estimated typing speed
  • update Tools#Typing once the software has been picked

This should be based on PIM content to improve memory at the same time.

Inspired by

• started Exercises a while ago followed by MemoryRecalls.LanguageRandomized then trying gBrainy
  • Cognition#DailyExercisesFeed has been written a while ago but never applied
  • see also Tools on typing exercises

See also

• Meditation
• Exercises

To do

1. visual of results over time
2. check http://primerlabs.com/codehero (added before to DiamondAge
3. Stanford AI and ML online courses which do provide exercises to do at home
4. add a reminder MemoryRecalls
5. check The Neuroscience of Tetris by Jeremy Fordham, The Beautiful Brain June 2011
   1. clarify the related TheWisdomParadox as its conclusion which suggest the importance of training
6. organize other resources
   1. Project Euler a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.
   2. http://www.ioinformatics.org
   3. http://community.topcoder.com/tc
   4. CodeChef
   5. http://math.scu.edu/putnam/
   6. http://www.mensa.org/workout

• Optimizing Brain Fitness by Professor Richard Restak, The Great Courses, The Teaching Company 2011