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anyone able to hook me up with a code? Will be much appreciated

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/m...our-keys-your-brains-out-of-sync.html

YOU'RE running late for work and you can't find your keys. What's really annoying is that in your frantic search, you pick up and move them without realising. This may be because the brain systems involved in the task are working at different speeds, with the system responsible for perception unable to keep pace.

So says Grayden Solman and his colleagues at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

To investigate how we search, Solman's team created a simple computer-based task that involved searching through a pile of coloured shapes on a computer screen. Volunteers were instructed to find a specific shape in a stack as quickly as possible, while the computer monitored their actions. "Between 10 and 20 per cent of the time, they would miss the object," says Solman, even though they picked it up. "We thought that was remarkably often."

To find out why, the team developed a number of further experiments. To check whether volunteers were just forgetting their target, they gave a new group a list of items to memorise before the search task, which they had to recall afterwards.

The idea was to fill each volunteer's "memory load", so that they were unable to hold any other information in their short-term memory. Although this was expected to have a negative effect on their performance at the search task, the extra load made no difference to the percentage of mistakes volunteers made.

To check that the volunteers were paying enough attention to the items they were moving, Solman's team created another task involving a stack of cards marked with shapes that only became visible while the card was being moved. Again, they were surprised to see the same level of error, says Solman.

Finally, the team analysed participants' mouse movements as they were carrying out a similar search task. They discovered that volunteers' movements were slower after they had moved and missed their target (Cognition, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.12.006).

Solman's team propose that the system in the brain that deals with movement is running too quickly for the visual system to keep up. While you are rummaging around a messy house to find your keys, you might not be giving your visual system enough time to work out what each object is. Since time can be costly, sacrificing accuracy on occasion for speed might be beneficial overall, Solman thinks.

The slowing of mouse movements suggests that at some level the volunteers were aware that they had missed their target, a theory that is backed up by other studies that show people tend to slow down their actions after they have made a mistake, even if they don't consciously realise the mistake. Solman reckons this reflects the brain's "attempt to slow down the motor system", to allow the visual system to catch up and conscious perception to occur.

"What's really interesting is the notion that the motor and perceptual system are decoupled. They're both trying to help you find [your keys] but they're not coordinating," says Todd Horowitz, at Harvard University. "There are implications for social search, such as a doctor looking through an X-ray or [security] looking through luggage."

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so it looks like the difference between having good days multitabling and days where you just feel exhausted can be chalked up to a variance of 10-20%. If the reactions you have at the poker table while mass tabling has 10-20% margin for error you can see why some days feel like a breeze and other days it's just a bunch of garbage.

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What is Durrr's PS name?

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I think everyone struggles with fear, and how you manage your fear will shape your perception of reality.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7383158n

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/1...487.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Read about Alex Honnold, the reigning free climber in the world. He climbs 2,000-3,000 foot walls with no gear; Just shoes, chalk and his mind.

I have been dealing with anxiety for the last year and a half. For a while I had uncontrollable panic/anxiety attacks every day for a few months, followed by a few months of constant head aches. A few months after life started to become more normal but still the odd migraine. I still feel anxiety over things that use to excite me, like flying or heights or even theme parks.

Everyone has messed up thoughts of dying or conceiving of trauma but those thoughts never affected me before, however after being off Accutane for 4 months, all hell broke lose on my nerves. Is it from the accutane? who knows, I have the same thoughts and perceptions as I always have, but never before in my life did I feel this sort of anxiety/panic/loss of control. I finally knew what millions of people go through that I once thought should be a simple mind/reality control. I had no perception of control and that made it worse.

I believe that no matter how bad you think your nerves are you can still control them, but that just means you have to actively try harder. To be honest, I believe the only thing that sets poker players apart is their focus, their control of the mind. If your nerves/stress/anxieties are too strong they will block your focus in making the most correct play.

When I see Alex Honnold climb up a cliff with no regard for his life, I see Jungleman/Galfond, climbing up the stakes. It's their focus that allows them to make emotionless plays, knowing that if they play correctly they will win.

What helped me the most with my anxiety/panic attacks was focus that I got from starting yoga and reading about mindfulness from a Buddhist. It's has only been 9 months that I've been feeling better'ish, still struggling at times, still struggling to keep my fears low enough to play Midstakes poker. I'm at one of the highest points in my life and yet these last 2 years have been my hardest to live through.

I have been in the pursuit of fearlessness and I believe one day I will find the inner peace to live fearlessly. The process towards this outcome drives me, through genuine intrigue. I hope anyone else struggling at life, or in poker, can find within themselves what they are looking for.

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What sites do you guys know/read about beers, microbrews, so on?

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Since people like ted here, I came across this

https://spreadsheets.google.com/sprea...0&sortasc=false&rowsperpage=250&pli=1

hope it helps to find interesting talks

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is 0Human0 basically the best player online now? Wondering anyone who has played what they think but I mean his results do not lie, endless crushing HS with practically no downswing. Also, anyone have any articles/post/vids made by him?

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Wondering if any known lper is able to send my Moneybookers $25-30, so I can activate it instead of paying a huge international wire. Will send the $25-30 back to you through MB or I can do PS/Party.

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So now party poker is changing their Rake to weighted, and increasing rake to Mid-HS. The fuckers are charging up to $5 600nl+

http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/wor...t-to-Weighted-Contributed-Rake_50575/

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I never post results usually but whatever, one day hope I can post results like Locoo. I know when I see higher stakes players post nice graphs it inspires me to play more, so maybe this will help even lower stakes players. Though not showing exact dollars but oh well.

All 1/2 FR-6max

Did not have much time this month to work, played maybe 9 sessions since I went backpacking/canoeing/portaging through algonquin park for a while.

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