Timothy
- Flow
There are days when I can't get into the flow of typing. I get bothered by each small mistake I made, I notice that I lag in deleting the characters, I linger on them just a second longer than I normally would. There are also days where everything seems to just click in place. My mind doesn't care that I made a mistake, doesn't complain that I made a mistake; it anticipates mistakes, accepts it as part of typing, and moves on. Some days the mind is like still water, you can see to the bottom.
Timothy
- To the "Metacognition is overrated quote"
If you've been on this site often enough, you'll see a quote talking about how metacognition is overrated.. I have to say, I disagree with that notion is overrated. Sure if you give the analogy that we don't need to think about our own thoughts as much as we don't need to bite our teeth while we're trying to eat, metacognition sounds dumb. But I feel like in that thought process lacks nuance, metacognition is the tool that we use for reflection. It's what we use to learn from past mistakes.
Michael Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael Goldwasser
- Abstraction
The notion of abstraction is to distill a complicated system down to its most fundamental parts. Typically, describing the parts of a system involves naming them and explaining their functionality. Applying the abstraction paradigm to the design of data structures gives rise to abstract data types (ADTs). An ADT is a mathematical model of a data structure that specifies the type of data stored, the operations supported on them, and the types of parameters of the operations.
Blaise Pascal
- Diversion (139)
Diversion.-When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
Blaise Pascal
- Misery
Misery.- The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves, and which makes us insensibly ruin ourselves. Without this we should be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
