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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Happiness
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:47:10 GMT
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- > I guess my question here is, just how does one advance to different
- >levels of skiing without the so-called wipe out?
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- It's called "Errorless learning" (Ref: Behavior Principles by Ferster and
- Perrot). The theory can work on rats, if you generalize it to skiing you
- will make a mint.
-
- You have to face it, if you are the typical computer nerd, falling is a
- part of the sport. Falling at high speed isn't the same as falling at lower
- speeds. This gets discussed in rec.climbing as well, and there is a who
- group devoted to falling called rec.martial-arts, but you should go try to
- learn to fall rather than read that news group.
-
- Gee, I wonder if I crack my ankle that past weekend.....
- Maybe better go get an x-ray.... [That wasn't a wipeout BTW.]
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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