What does the cold have to do with it?
Paulovsk
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thank you. This was a ‘duh!’ moment; I haven’t realized it was the 2nd book of the Natural 20.
Can you give a link to this story? It is surprisingly difficult to find.
No. Quirrell knew what was going on because of the empathic link with Harry. The “ancient device” line was him covering up that this existed.
From Reddit, when people answered the exact same commentary made by me.
Started reading now. It’s highly rated, so I’m expecting it to be at least amusing.
Could you send the 1st and 2nd for me, please? paulo at username dot com
It’s a copywriting technique. It makes easier for people to read (note how the subjects of newsletters campaings usually come like that). Don’t ask me for the research, I have no idea where I’ve read it.
In this case, I guess he just pasted the title here.
Yep.
I’m rather curious how parents can “be” something to children without doing, since it’s supposed children don’t know their parents before their first contact (after birth, I mean).
It seems beautiful, so far. Thanks!
Yep, most of it. I mean, ALL of it. It’s just too much. Quirrel (and Voldemort) in the cannon aren’t that smart, so I’m having so trouble updating that.
Latest Author’s Note Update.
There’s a chance here to reach up toward that impossible dream of a better world where people aren’t crazy all the damn time, because believe it or not, nobody’s really tried anything like this before. [...] Science, reason, and rationality – it’s what Muggles use instead of magic, and it’s all we’ve got.
I thought it was really inspiring.
I had such a hard time convincing myself on this (quirrel = voldemort).
Yes, I’m probably biased, but I don’t know how. I suspect it’s because I can’t think of how Quirrelmort would do all that stuff, so I assumed he wouldn’t.
Now you’re pop ;)
Step by step:
Open your chrome browser and press F12
Click on ‘Scripts’
Down corner on the left, Click in the icon to “show console”
Paste the code and press enter. The page will seem to reload and the magic will happen.
By the way, thanks for the code
The link in the end of text is broken. I’ve found another one, would you update it?
Check whether it is the same pdf before posting. I believe it is.
Screw AI, let’s just build Feynman when we get the technology. He was a hoot!
Sounds good to me.
What’s exactly the next step after I notice I’m confused?
How? How? In retrospect it had been an obvious sort of idea as cunning plots went, but Granger wasn’t supposed to be cunning! She’d been too much of a Hufflepuff to use a Simple Strike Hex! Had Professor Quirrell been advising her despite his promise, or...
And then Draco finally did what he should have done much earlier.
What he should have done after the first time he met with Granger.
What Harry Potter had told him to do, trained him to do, and yet Harry had also warned Draco that it would take time to make his brain realize that the methods applied to real life, and Draco hadn’t understood that until today. He could have avoided every single one of his mistakes if he’d just applied the things Harry had already told him -
Draco said out loud, “I notice that I am confused.”
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality… Draco was confused.
Therefore, something he believed was fiction.
Granger should not have been able to do all that. Therefore, she probably hadn’t. I promise not to help General Granger in any way that the two of you don’t know about. With sudden horrified realization, Draco swept papers out of the way, hunting through the mess on his desk, until he found it.And there it was.
In this short piece, Draco searches for some belief that he thought it was true but it couldn’t be because he was confused. Is there any step by step or we just begin with it?
Yeah, man, your journey is most interesting than you think. PM me too, if possible.
This is a “knowledge builds up on previous knowledge” problem. It’s not that math is fundamentally hard or something a person with normal intelligence can’t achieve.
It’s just a matter of systematically filling the gaps in your knowledge. Some people have wider gaps, others have narrower ones. Past experience counts a lot here.
The ideal posture is starting from the ground. Really, go back to the beginning of high school of you need to (that’s no shame), but make sure you have the fundamentals right (and you expose yourself to a variety of applications/examples/environments).
Message me if you need some sort of step-by-step to kick into action. I’ve been researching this a lot and founded a company in Brazil that gives trainings on how to learn better.