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we are used to hearing phrases
like math is not my thing not
could not run the collective in English
I understand nothing let’s get used to
listen to them but also to say them
all its forms that we have to say
I do not know how to do it
I can not do better than another
personally I like to question this
position and think that all these
situations are the best opportunity
to say if I’m going to try
as I was 16 17 years old I used all
the days all the time a lot of
electronic devices
the cell phone the computer the
music equipment
many users to the perfect but not
I had an idea how they worked
imbalance what led me to
study electronic engineering of the
university was the ideal place to
learn new things to study and
wrong correct and wrong
learn and be wrong
that’s how I could learn to design
the electronic equipment that we use
every day after having
approved his last exam was ready
to go out into the world and say I am
mathematical physics and engineering in
what can I help you but after
both study and study and learn what
what are you using there every day
all the time but without having any idea how
it worked had been my own brain
and I thought how could I learn
so many new things
we all learn the same thing we can learn
faster the engineering faculty already
It was not the ideal place to solve
these doubts but luckily I met
Andrew Rieznik a great scientist and
He took the opportunity to ask him all these
things the first thing that he clarified to me is that
if the millions of analogies between the
human brain and the computer do not
they are the same things are fine
different and I commented an experiment
very simple that shows their differences
when it comes to working with numbers
we all know that either computers
as people can tell us between two
numbers
what is the biggest the computers what
they do buying the digits of each one
of the numbers are set in the most
the one on the left and only
if they are equal they are fixed in the rest
so to compare 81-59 it’s enough to see
what 8 is greater than 5 for the second 81
the greatest of the eyes the people
instead we do not understand the numbers
as symbols found the meaning
when we see a number
we are seeing the amount that
represents we see its meaning
for this reason it costs us more to compare
numbers that are closer between
they listed farther away what
show the experiment
it’s just that we take more time
in answering
the closer the numbers are to
compare this particular form that
we have to understand the numbers are
the reasons why it costs us so much
work with large numbers
we all know that three times 721 but
when it’s 3,528 by seven why not what
we make
mentally it ‘s a lot of effort
we do not know how we can not or can not
we try
well at this height I was going to make myself
questions I did not think of any
experiment to reach the
answers and the truth that he experienced
I knew very little about what I knew
was that if I wanted to understand how
we learn to do accounts with numbers
great people need to find
willing to do it willing to do
something I did not know how to do
I was trying to understand the whole process
learning and for that it was necessary that
the people or the lab all the
days
they imagine that that is not very feasible
we thought about adding the experiment to each
one of the participants
but neither for this reason we decide
give a twist to the
experiment and cried to the pocket of each
one of us
the experiment was dressed up
application for cell phones and
so we hope to solve the biggest
challenges of the nation experiment at
same time two personal challenges and
now before my first experiment and
schedule my first application
I still remember when Mariano the
laboratory director
I wonder does not know how to program how
do the application and I knew that the
only correct answer was yes clear
but can not lie I said no I do not know
but there’s no problem just side
that was the exact moment that I assumed
commitment
the truth that I had never made a
application I did not even know where
start
but I did want to understand more about
how does our brain work had no
option
so I went to my house and sat on the
computer
The first thing I discovered is that a
computer was exactly what
I needed to start working and
To my surprise, it is the only thing necessary
to make applications and I started
zero like everyone
I read books and editorials I got together with
scientists with programmers with
designers with anyone who would like
give a hand they taught me things
very important program many hours
what worked was what was not
then bielsa obviously the first
experiment did not work and the
application at the beginning was not very
attractive
I had to do the result again
all this work is very serious that is
download your mobile phone morávek
it’s a game a game that you ‘re taking
for different levels and you are learning
new ways of doing accounts
mentally for the mets
serious errors that is a tool
a tool that allows us
connect with all the users in
any part of the world we can know
what accounts do they answer how much
time is slow and another lot of things
they remember the experiment that
I commented at the beginning that there was
compare the numbers good to be
sure that the observed has not been
chance they repeated it in 10 people
and to be honest
we hope we can reach more
people do something more massive
although it was difficult to imagine that the
people do accounts in their moments
free
We did not expect 10 people and 20
I dreamed of reaching the two hundred
today and involved more than
1,500 people in total and if the more
of 300 thousand accounts mentally
it’s an enormity of information about
how do we make accounts information that
let us understand why there is
operations more difficult than others
because if the two numbers multiply
They are equal
It is the easiest how it influences
our language in the way we
we do operations shot that happened
when they had to face the
accounts more difficult when
numbers had three or four digits
they could solve three thousand 528 by seven
without calculator without pencil and paper
they could do it they responded well
75% of the most difficult accounts and not
only that to me who practicing
they managed to decrease their time
answer to half
today a person who used the application
of half the time in answering that
one that did not and now we can
affirm that juan morávek is learned that
we can take advantage of the phones
cell phones to do experiments that
there are a lot of people wanting to do
science that we can all do
experiments and we can all do
applications there is a lot to do but
If I am sure of something, we are going to
have to face things that
we never did things that we do not know how
do because not the worst that can happen
is that we learn to do it many
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