session on saturday. 1-445ish
wcg
10bucks

lets train hard!

Happy Halloween!


FF_2009 is now rendering

Hilary, Devon, myself and possibly Tony are going to a session in NY today. It'll be a good mix up of old school and new school kids in attendance.

Possibly Devon, Hilary and I will film and edit a sampler of the night. I'm sure we'll have a good amount of material to edit.

Anyways, enjoy your weekend regardless of what you may be doing. Have fun!

This is a post to update the blog because it needs an update. Jerry Jackson is featured on the BBC??!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9VKSqjtLe8

So much footage to go through~

James Yu himself is declaring an NY gathering this year. as of right now looks like it'll be around end of December/ first few days in January. I definitely want to go but i have to go back to school on the 4th of Jan. Anyone else interested? what are y'all winter schedules?

here is thread

Im really close:



and Im also editing a sampler from that day.

Im thinking of hitting up wcg this saturday. anyone down?

Yep
I trained at wcg today from 11-1. It was excellent!
They have a new red carpet and it looks awesome!
The sound system is good.
We can train on weekends too I just gotta call to give them
A heads up.
I peeled a kiwi with my bare hands and ate it like an orange.
That is good.
My day is good...
Landing new and creative tricks makes me happy...

I went to the Trickadelphia session that just went down. Hilary filmed and I edited this one. Also I got to spend time with a good friend of mine from high school (Loc Lam), and there were a lot of "old school" trickers at the gathering. So this gathering was great for me!

ffEdit_Trickadelphia from Jaime Colon on Vimeo.

Also I talked with Steve from WCG. It seems like I can go in on Tuesday and Thursday mornings to train. I'll talk with him about a time slot where we can train together, possibly on Saturday or Sunday. That, my friends is good news!

Goofy Pictures up on my facebook, Go on my page and find the album titled "OK Computer" to view them, OR click this link and sign in: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=264950&id=644320313

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Anders Sandberg / asa@nada.kth.se

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Mental/rules.html

Mental Heuristics

A heuristic is a "rule-of-thumb", advice that helps an AI program or human think and act more efficiently by directing thinking in an useful direction.

Some of these heuristics are age-old wisdom, bordering on cliche, but most are actually helpful.

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If you want something done, do it yourself

Comment: Obviously true, and doing it is usually very good for your self esteem. A surprising amount of work can be done this way, and experts are not always necessary. However, there is a risk of becoming overworked if you try to do everything yourself - we all need other people after all.

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Never procrastinate anything you can do right now

Comment: Very powerful. There are many things that can be fixed or solved with a minimum of effort, but are often pushed aside as unimportant. Unfortunately they won't go away, and in time the feelings of guilt for not having done them will make you even less likely of fixing the problems.

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When you have several things you could be doing and don't know which to do: Just do any one of them!

Comments: If you cannot decide between two or more possibilities, then there is a good chance that the differences don't matter. However, most people begin to hesitate in this kind of situation (Fredkin's paradox). If you are conscious of this, you can just choose one choice randomly or according to some standard method.

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Always assume that you will succeed

Comments: If you don't expect to succeed in an endeavor, then you will not do your best and will not notice possible solutions, while if you feel that you will eventually succeed you will concentrate all your power at the problem. Of course, there is no point in attempting what you cannot do, a certain amount of self-knowledge is always needed.

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If you can't find a solution, change the rules.

Comment: Remember that there are no no-win scenarios.

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If you cannot do anything about something, there is no point in worrying about it.

Comment: Worrying is stressful, and in most situations doesn't accomplish anything - it just wastes energy. Instead of worrying about things, either do something about them or find ways around the problem. One useful idea is to write down your worries on slips of paper, and then put them away in a box. Regularly, once a week or so, you open the box and see what you can do about the worries that are still relevant.

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Do not rely on conscious decisions for speed - Just Do It

Comments: The conscious mind is surprisingly slow, conscious choices and actions are delayed for a significant time (a reflex acts within some tens of milliseconds, an unconscious reaction to external stimuli circa 100 milliseconds and a conscious choice several seconds). The duty of the conscious mind is usually to inhibit rather than start action, and if you become too conscious of what you are doing in a tense situation you will hesitate or slow down.

It is a good idea to learn to rely on your non-conscious mind, since our conscious mind is slow and has very low bandwidth while the other systems in our brains have a tremendous capacity and actually do most of the real work anyway.

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Don't try to explain away your actions for yourself

Comment: While we often do things we do not want to explain our real motivations for before other people (out of fear of embarrassment, anger or loss of image), it is a bad idea to try to convince oneself that the motivation was anything different from what it was. It will only reduce your self-knowledge with deliberate misinformation, and it is often valuable to understand what motivations you have (even if you dislike them or would never admit them in public).

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Listen to your intuition, but do not believe it unconditionally

Comments: Intuitive or emotional thinking, analogies, "gut feelings" or "flashes of inspiration" can sometimes give fantastic new insights or show problems from a new direction. Unfortunately such thinking isn't always reliable, and quite often completely wrong! Such insights should never be accepted because you admire their beauty or they are intuitive, only because they fit with reality.

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