On: Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient th...

[nkrisc]

Jokes on you. Every time you played ball you were secretly learning about ballistic trajectories and estimating velocities using visual cues such as apparent angular size and parallax.

[grugagag → nkrisc]

The brain uses heuristics for that

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Heuristics that you practice and finetune via play, for example by throwing and catching balls.

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Being a father to two young kids, I can confidently say we aren’t born with those heuristics already tuned.