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Unlocking Your Intuition: How to Solve Hard Problems Easily
Intuition. It's one of your brain's most powerful processes, and yet, so few people know how to really make use of it. So here's a bit of information in every sense - what it is, why it's so great, and how you can make yours even better.
This is all in the context of problem solving - programming, math, chess, life, etc. Any sort of "mind sport" or problem solving process.
Sources (probably not exhaustive):
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kahneman-excerpt-thinking-fast-and-slow/
https://lithub.com/gut-feelings-how-does-intuition-work-anyway
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01395/full
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insight
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/develop-your-intuition-through-meditation/ (if you want a reading on meditation)
Music (not in order, I'm lazy)
Local Forecast - Slower by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3988-local-forecast---slower
License: [yt dislikes this link, removed]
Dreams by Bensound
https://www.bensound.com
Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM
Sthlm Sunset by Ehrling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEhoGt4mIw
(not exactly sure how to credit, the link is dead)
Sunset On Terra by HYBRID V (Creative Commons License)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM
Paradise by Ikson ( https://youtube.com/ikson )
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtj7_KaplM
This Is For You (Prod. by Lukrembo)
Link : https://youtu.be/GC0AhsnDMfc
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:02 About me (my qualifications)
01:59 What is intuition?
04:07 Intuition or insight?
04:46 Why is intuition important?
05:39 How can you use intuition?
07:55 How can you improve intuition?
12:38 Do smarter people naturally have stronger intuition?
16:00 Conclusion
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1:38 From fiber optics to photonics
2:58 Dennard scaling is done?
4:55 Founding Lightmatter
7:00 Lightmatter's chips
10:24 Why this is amazing
11:23 AGI scaling
15:45 Lightmatter's lab!
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