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An episode of QI, BBC's popular comedy quiz show hosted by Mr. Stephen Fry has caused an uproar in Japan. In this particular episode, Mr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, was introduced as "the unluckiest man in the world". As it was reported that the Japanese embassy made a protest to the BBC and the production company, indignation and anger spread in
Towards a more open-ended English education. Ken Mogi Sony Computer Science Laboratories kenmogi@qualia-manifesto.com It is a widely recognized fact that the Japanese people are not particularly good at expressing themselves in English. To some observers, this is a genuine puzzle, considering the many hours of study that the Japanese typically put towards the acquisition of English skills. Here, b
I think one of the most important things in life is to forget. As we live along, things accumulate, and the momentum becomes a killer rather than nurturer of new initiatives and unexpected twists. We start to tacitly assume that today is going to be something like yesterday, where, even if there is to be some sort of change, it is going to be at best incremental. It is advisable therefore to forge
Believe it or not, Japanese University students start the activity of searching for a company to work for ("Shukatsu") more than one year before graduation. Students start searching for their jobs in December of their third year. Graduation would be still one year and three months away (which takes place in March here), and the academic activities are at their peak. And yet, the students would be
The brain has a great ability to betray you. Betraying you in the positive sense, that is. At some stages of life, when you are entering a new domain, you would sometimes feel as if you are not quite up to it. For example, when you start to learn a new subject, it might seem that it is too difficult for you. You simply cannot imagine the you who would be capable of doing that incredible thing. Lik
On Fridays, Crick would take loads of papers with him to read over the weekend. We hold a weekly journal club. It is called "the Brain Club." I regard the reading of journal papers as an important part of the education for graduate students. At first, it might take even a week to understand the significance of a paper, and present it to the lab members. As you get accustomed to the genre, you star
I came all the way to Cleveland to meet with Mr. Rick Baron. Rick's condition is termed "hyperthymesia", where the individual has a remarkable ability to recall his or her autobiographical memory. Researchers at University of California Irvine are investigating the nature of Rick's special abilities. So far, there are four confirmed cases of hyperthymesia in the United States. One of them is Jill
Decouple one's learning process from the social contexts and make it grow rapidly The Japanese economy is experiencing a prolonged period of depression, starting from the bust of the bubble economy. Some have even called the past two decades as "the lost 20 years." Because the human brain is well developed and capable of adapting to the environment, it is possible and natural that the Japanese peo
In life what you see in the periphery is often more important than what you observe in the central vision. If your attention is stuck, then you do not have the flexibility to move your mind around, and capture what is transient and disappearing ever and ever. Catch it if you can. The essential and important things often play hide and seek with your mind. There, in the corner of your visual field,
As artificial intelligence systems advance and execute computations for humans, there are arguments that human jobs would be lost. We would have nothing to do, and just idle away, enjoying the technological Eden that advancements of science and technology have prepared for us. Arguably, it is possible that humans would have less and less need to work, although I remain skeptical about such a vista
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