Intellitech - How to boost your creativity
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Intellitech - How to boost your creativity

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This project is to translate my book in Japanese into English. You can see the work in progress at the scrapbox project.

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NISHIO Hirokazu
NISHIO Hirokazu

Dr. Hirokazu NISHIO is a software engineer. Doctor of Science. Research Director at Cybozu Labs Inc. Concurrently serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Technology and Innovation Management / Department of Innovation Science, School of Environment and Society. 

Table of Contents

  • (0) Preface
    • (0.0) What is intellitech?
    • (0.1) Purpose of this book
      • (0.1.1) What is Intellectual Production
      • (0.1.2) Benefits of reading this book
    • (0.2) How to learn programming
      • (0.2.1) Collect information concretely
      • (0.2.2) Compare and find patterns
      • (0.2.3) Practice and verification
    • (0.3) Structure of this book
    • (0.4) Acknowledgments
  • (1) How to learn
    • (1.1) The learning cycle
      • (1.1.1) Information gathering
      • (1.1.2) Modeling and abstraction
      • (1.1.3) Practice and verification
    • (1.2) Driving force to cycle: motivation
      • (1.2.1) Difference between student learning and university learning
      • (1.2.2) How to keep motivated?
      • (1.2.3) Should I go to university?
      • (1.2.4) How to find good references?
      • (1.2.5) How to choose better paper book?
    • (1.3) Three methods of information gathering
      • (1.3.1) Learn from what you want to know
      • (1.3.2) Requirement for learning from what you want to know
      • (1.3.3) Learn roughly first
      • (1.3.4) Learn from one end
    • (1.4) What is abstraction?
      • (1.4.1) Abstract
      • (1.4.2) Model
      • (1.4.3) Module
      • (1.4.4) Model / View / Controller
      • (1.4.5) Pattern Discovery
      • (1.4.6) Design pattern
      • (1.4.7) Why is abstraction necessary?
    • (1.5) How to abstract
      • (1.5.1) Compare and learn
      • (1.5.2) Learning from history
      • (1.5.3) Learn from patterns
    • (1.6) Verification
      • (1.6.1) Varification by making
      • (1.6.2) Varification by exams
      • (1.6.3) Domains that are difficult to verify
    • (1.7) Summary
  • (2) How to motivate yourself
    • (2.1) 65% of not-motivated people have more than one task
      • (2.1.1) grasp the overall picture first to choose one task
      • (2.1.2) Getting Things Done: Collect all first
      • (2.1.3) Collect all and then process them
      • (2.1.4) How to choose one task
    • (2.2) Prioritization of tasks is itself a difficult task
      • (2.2.1) A burden of sorting
      • (2.2.2) We can not compare magnitude unless it is one dimension
      • (2.2.3) We can not compare magnitude when there is an uncertain factor?
      • (2.2.4) Prioritize important tasks
      • (2.2.5) You do not have to determine the priority now
    • (2.3) Motivation on one task
      • (2.3.1) Task is too big
      • (2.3.2) Timeboxing
    • (2.4) Summary
  • (3) How to train your memory
    • (3.1) Memory mechanism
      • (3.1.1) Hippocampus
      • (3.1.2) Person who removed hippocampus
      • (3.1.3) Morris water maze
      • (3.1.4) Memory is not one type
    • (3.2) The common part between memory and muscle
      • (3.2.1) Synapse transmitting a signal
      • (3.2.2) Long-term potentiation of synapses
      • (3.2.3) Gradually make the memory solid
    • (3.3) Memory becomes strong by repeated use
    • (3.4) The output make memory strong
      • (3.4.1) Test is a means of memorization
      • (3.4.2) Learn more after testing
      • (3.4.3) Not confident but the score is high
      • (3.4.4) Adaptive boosting
      • (3.4.5) High-speed cycle of test
    • (3.5) Spaced repetition method that lasts knowledge
      • (3.5.1) Review after you forget it
      • (3.5.2) Leitner system
      • (3.5.3) The easiness of the problem
      • (3.5.4) The 20 rules to structure knowledge
      • (3.5.5) Anki
      • (3.5.6) Automatic adjustment of difficulty level
      • (3.5.7) Make teaching materials yourself
      • (3.5.8) Copyright and private use
    • (3.6) Summary
  • (4) How to read efficiently
    • (4.1) What is “reading?”
      • (4.1.1) Purpose of reading a book
      • (4.1.2) Kind and speed of reading
    • (4.2) How fast do you read?
      • (4.2.1) Pyramid of reading speed
      • (4.2.2) Where is the bottleneck?
      • (4.2.3) Suffering of speed reading
      • (4.2.4) To not read
    • (4.3) How to read a page in two seconds to find information
      • (4.3.1) Whole Mind System
      • (4.3.2) Focus Reading
      • (4.3.3) Attention to headlines
    • (4.4) Reading one page in three minutes to assemble information
      • (4.4.1) How to read philosophical books
      • (4.4.2) Spend 40 hours in one book
      • (4.4.3) How to read mathematical books
    • (4.5) Design task of reading
      • (4.5.1) Understanding is an uncertain task
      • (4.5.2) Reading is a means, not a purpose
      • (4.5.3) Make materials for review
    • (4.6) Summary
  • (5): How to organize information
    • (5.1) Is there too much information or too little?
      • (5.1.1) Measure the amount of information by writing all out
    • (5.2) How to organize too much information
      • (5.2.1) Spread so that you can see the whole at a glance
      • (5.2.2) Record anything you think
      • (5.2.3) Make related things close
      • (5.2.4) You need to change your mental model for group organization
      • (5.2.5) What is the relation?
      • (5.2.6) Bundle and attach a nameplate = compress
      • (5.2.7) Spread bundles again
      • (5.2.8) Convert them into one-dimensional sentences
    • (5.3) Tuning for busy people
      • (5.3.1) Skip steps
      • (5.3.2) Interruptible design
      • (5.3.3) Method to store A4 documents
    • (5.4) It is important to repeat
      • (5.4.1) Repeating the KJ method
      • (5.4.2) Trigger to repeat
      • (5.4.3) Incremental improvement
      • (5.4.4) Organizing group of past output again
      • (5.4.5) Digital tool for the KJ method
    • (5.5) Summary
  • Columns
    • (Column) 7 Habits
    • (Column) Consistency of knowledge
    • (Column) Do you need the ability to find information ten years later?
    • (Column) Efficiency improvement by framework
    • (Column) Emergency decomposition theory
    • (Column) Example of “to write all out” method
    • (Column) In the hippocampus time is compressed
    • (Column) Nameplate and color of pieces
    • (Column) Naming the pattern
    • (Column) PDCA cycle
    • (Column) Reading along time series
    • (Column) SMART criteria
    • (Column) Size of pieces
    • (Column) The remaining 15 rules to structure knowledge
    • (Column) You may find a relationship later
    • (Column) excerpt from civil code map
  • Keywords
    • -KA
    • 20 rules to structure knowledge
    • A book that you have read but have forgotten
    • A book that you have read roughly
    • ability to adjust knowledge
    • Abstract
    • adaptive boosting
    • Akinori Takada
    • all models are wrong
    • Anki
    • anxious things
    • Arthur Schopenhauer
    • assumption
    • beforehand
    • big task
    • books to be chewed
    • bubble sort
    • Call for Reviewers
    • cherry-picking
    • chew
    • chicken or the egg
    • CHUSHOKA
    • claim
    • cloze deletion
    • compare
    • consider the means as the purpose
    • context
    • Craik and Tulving
    • Creativity or learning
    • curiosity
    • Cybozu
    • dig
    • divide
    • efficient sorting algorithms
    • expanded reproduction
    • extract
    • find a relationship
    • find common pattern
    • finding
    • Finding information is an uncertain task.
    • Flash cards
    • floor
    • Footnote 23 for (5.2.3.1) Flow of KJ method
    • Footnote for 1.2.2.2 tutorial
    • Footnote for 4.5.2.3
    • Footnote: other metaphors for taking the top of pyramid
    • fragmentary knowledge
    • fusen
    • George Edward Pelham Box
    • goal
    • gradation
    • handicap theory
    • handle
    • Hard disk drive
    • How to make ideas
    • I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
    • ICHIRANSEI
    • independence
    • inferior stationery harms your intelligence
    • information asymmetry
    • information gathering
    • IWAKAN
    • junior high school
    • Kindle Direct Publishing
    • Knowledge is an antidote for fear
    • knowledge is stacked on the foundation
    • learning cycle
    • Learning methods of engineer
    • Learning without thinking is useless
    • long-term potentiation
    • MEMORY: From Mind to Molecule
    • Method of loci
    • methodology
    • MODEL-KA
    • Modeling or abstraction is a task to stack boxes
    • Monte Carlo tree search
    • MOOC
    • Morris water maze
    • motivation
    • near, far, close, distant
    • Niklaus Wirth
    • Note: Why I hate keeping the same
    • optimism in the face of uncertainty
    • order of appearance
    • Original Matz’s talk in Japanese
    • overall picture
    • parallel processing
    • pattern discovery
    • practice
    • prefix syn-
    • Principles of Neural Science
    • Principles of the small start
    • Programming Languages: Their Core Concepts
    • public-key cryptography
    • pull back
    • quick dicision
    • quiet speaking
    • read through
    • reading through
    • Reading with hands
    • Result of the agent simulation
    • rhetorical afterimage
    • Roger Craig
    • roughly first
    • search
    • search engine
    • sense of incompatibility
  • TODO link to section6
    • sense of values
    • Shigehiko Toyama
    • signal
    • signal of quality
    • SM-2 algorithm
    • SNS
    • society
    • Solid-state drive
    • speed-reading techniques
    • stack
    • Staffan Nöteberg
    • summarize information
    • Sutra copying
    • technique
    • Technique to Read Difficult Books
    • the meaning of a word is its use in the language
    • The optimal way to boost creativity depends on your situation, so you need to build it by yourself.
    • the three phases of the learning cycle
    • The Zen of Python
    • thunks
    • Timeboxing
    • to write all out
    • unclear about the achievement condition
    • understand
    • unknown achievement condition
    • usage of the physical body
    • variance
    • visualize the progress
    • Way of thinking
    • way to break a task
    • What kind of
    • William Edwards Deming
    • Yasuyuki Kawahigashi
    • You’re NOT gonna need it!
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