Cultivating Instinct
summary
Argues that perceptual learning can be taught deliberately and compressed: training pilots with 3 hours of perceptual training raises correct map matches from ~50% to ~80% and non‑pilots to ~60%; classroom fraction‑recognition drills lift problem‑solving from 40% to ~70% with effects lasting months; Japanese chick sexers train by two years of paired practice to reach 97% accuracy and 1,200 chicks/hour; a GitHub test fix cuts DB calls by ~40% and stops CI timeouts.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Neuroscientist encounter
- 2:55Synesthesia and instinct
- 8:12Science of perceptual learning
- 13:30Expert information extraction
- 18:08Compressing instinct into training
- 25:07Programming expertise from perception
- 29:39Better training for developers
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