Sometimes, doing the right thing is just way too hard. So you have use the best approximate substitute available. When you can't fly like a bird, you can…
When "fits and starts" is the most efficient path - @ASmartBear
When you go full-speed in one direction for a hot minute, then slam on the brakes and do something else, and keep doing that, and it's actually the correct course of action.
Flywheel Effect: Why Positive Feedback Loops are a Meta-Competitive Advantage
A fascinating adventure through Competitive Advantages, Mental Models, and practical lessons for operators. Also lots of fun pictures here!
Learn to Fly - Play online at Coolmath Games
Grab your glider, strap on your rockets, and learn to fly. Help this penguin fly like other birds. Earn money and buy upgrades to make it over the water.
Overcoming Bias : Tiptoe Or Dash To Future?
To test who should TA elite classes, new physics grad students at U Chicago in ’81 were asked to pick a physics problem and explain its solution to the group. I did well by picking the question: should you walk fast or slow if you want to get the least water on your front while moving a certain distance in the rain. The answer is: move as fast as you can.
100 Jumps
Hold to charge, release to jump. Land on 100 platforms to win — but one miss and it's over. How many attempts will it take you?
Oberth effect
In astronautics, a powered flyby, or Oberth maneuver, is a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravity well and then uses its engines to further accelerate as it is falling, thereby achieving additional speed. The resulting maneuver is a more efficient way to gain kinetic energy than applying the same impulse outside of a gravity well. The gain in efficiency is explained by the Oberth effect, wherein the use of a reaction engine at higher speeds generates a greater change in mechanical energy than its use at lower speeds. In practical terms, this means that the most energy-efficient method for a spacecraft to burn its fuel is at the lowest possible orbital periapsis, when its orbital velocity is greatest. In some cases, it is even worth spending fuel on slowing the spacecraft into a gravity well to take advantage of the efficiencies of the Oberth effect. The maneuver and effect are named after Hermann Oberth, an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and a founder of modern rocketry, who first described them in 1927.
Tools for thought in your OODA loop
The unreasonable effectiveness of getting oriented
How flying seriously messes with your mind
Travelling by plane has become an everyday activity – but our bodies and brains are still affected by it.
Better fluid sizing with round()
Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.
Race the Sky
Hold to tether, release to sling. One-touch slingshot racing — fly as your Bluesky avatar and race your friends' ghosts.
Race the Sky
Hold to tether, release to sling. One-touch slingshot racing — fly as your Bluesky avatar and race your friends' ghosts.
Talon 1400 - Flightory
Your Ultimate 3D Printed UAV for High-Performance Flight. Enjoy Long Range Flights and Tailored Customization. Explore Versatile Configurations Now
What Kind of Bird Can't Fly by Dorsey Nunn | East Bay Booksellers
A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights."Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible—from the level of the individual to that of law, culture, and society—should make time to read Dorsey Nunn's extraordinary memoir.
tbh even these takes are too extreme though. see my thread on what the paper actually says:
Ariel M. (she/her)
Experiment 1 = 354 participants, randomly assigned to solve “15 fraction problems…of varying difficulty”. No penalty for wrong answers, payment not dependent on how many they got correct. If wrong, answer shown. Had option to Skip questions.
