Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics
By Michael Nielsen, January 2019
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By Michael Nielsen, January 2019
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By Michael Nielsen, November 21, 2019
Have you ever felt awe and delight upon first experiencing a computer interface? An interface that surprised you with its strangeness, with a sense of entering an alien world?
The world's oldest complete piece of surviving music is the 3,400-year-old Hurrian cult hymn . The hymn was found inscribed on clay tablets excavated from the ancient city of Ugarit, in modern-day Syria. Sometime after the hymn was composed, the idea of using notation to record music was lost. Writing two millennia…