Ben, What about adults? Things like language learning, dynamics of memorizing. Feature spaced repetition ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition ) tries to hijack looks to me like a good candidate for memorization heuristics.
On Nov 30, 2007 4:45 PM, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2007 7:57 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ben: It seems to take tots a damn lot of trials to learn basic skills > > > > Sure. My point is partly that human learning must be pretty quantifiable in > > terms of number of times a given action is practised, > > Definitely NOT ... it's very hard to quantify when a child is > practicing crawling > versus just rehearsing the component arm/leg movements, wiggling around, > etc. I can imagine that quantifying this sort of thing in a really meaningful > way must be fairly difficult... > > > & I wonder whether > > anyone's counting. > > I agree it's a worthwhile effort, though. I don't think anyone has counted > this > sort of thing because it would require constant surveillance of the child. > > The data being gathered in Deb Roy's Human Speechome project should > actually be useful for this -- he's got a video camera on his young > child nearly > 24 hours a day... > > -- Ben > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > -- Vladimir Nesov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=70977753-5d2628
