Practical Guide: An Eight-Month Study Calendar for High-Stakes Exams
This guide turns the theory from the planning post into a calendar with real dates. The example is based on a competitive exam with 25 topics, plus an oral presentation that we will treat as one more topic. The same method works for other long, high-stakes exams that take most…
How AI Really Works: Neural Networks Explained. Part I
When someone says “AI” these days, they are almost always thinking of models that can…
Studying with AI
Let’s talk about artificial intelligence and learning without the hype. There is no revolution under…
The Bionic Future Put to the Test
More than 700,000 people have a cochlear implant [1]. A microphone picks up sound, a…
How to Build Study Habits
In a study of 105 people from the United Kingdom and Australia, participants received six prompts a day for a…
AI-Assisted Research
In October 2024, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three people who work on proteins. Two of them, Demis…
How to Fight Anxiety on Exam Day
There’s a moment in the life of almost every student when the exam begins and your mind, right on cue,…
Brain Cleaning: How and Why
In 2012, a team from the University of Rochester led by Maiken Nedergaard described something…
Timing in Study
Timing in Study We’ve already covered retrieval practice in this blog: retrieving from memory consolidates…
Data Center Consumption: Problems and Solutions
Data Center Consumption: Problems and Solutions Training a large language model consumes as much electricity…
Mental Training: An Analysis of the Most Popular Methods
A 2010 study recruited 11,430 adults, viewers of a BBC science program, and asked them…
The Anatomy of Compulsive Buying
You buy a charger you already have. A jacket that looks like three others hanging…
Analysis of the Effectiveness of Motivation and Visualization
Close your eyes. Imagine you’ve already gotten what you want. Feel what it would be…
