they noticed a decline in both cortical thickness, as well as the amount of glucose used during that task. However, they remained just as good at Tetris; their skill did not decrease. The brain scans showed less brain activity during the game-playing, instead of more, as in the previous days. Why the drop?
got more efficient. Once their brain figured out how to play Tetris, and got really good at it, it got lazy. It didn’t need to work as hard in order to play the game well, so the cognitive energy and the glucose went somewhere else instead.”
many of the best programmers I know have no formal training in such. These things can be learned by anybody, many of them are learned best in a hands-on environment. Jesse Storimer
how will my code be different when I have mastered Vim?” Master Wq answered, “Before Vim: declare, define, process, print. After Vim: declare, define, process, print.” ~ Vim Koans