Author: akshay
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Anatomy practical
8.15 reporting time 8.20 sticking register number on the name plate, records; sharpening pencils 8.30 time to start, but since first day, it went on to 9.30 GROSS 9.35 submitting gross record, taking lots, getting assigned the table 9.45 Spotters – hopefully the following cauda equina, foramen ovale, oblique facial cleft, facial artery, fascia lata…
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What do you perceive as reality?
Just saw Shutter Island, and I should tell you it's the most amazing take on memories and how they define reality and what neuropsychiatry is all about and omg, what not! SPOILER WARNING: If you've not seen the movie, and are planning to, then don't read ahead. So, here's where it all matches what ideas…
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Attempting to Solve the Hard Probelm of Consciousness
I remember asking one of my computer science friends a few months ago when he was coding a small game “When your program plays the game, does it actually know the rules, or does it just act as per your algorithms as to how to proceed at each imaginable point that comes up during the…
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Switching Techniques
Learning is a constant search for new ideas how to study effectively, more efficiently, better. Especially when there is too much to cover, and you get bored by just the sheer index of what you’ve got to cover. My latest idea is to write down all those ideas. 😀 Stand up Keep an alarm for…
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Back to Basics
Parkinson’s law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Study holiday version of the same: Work contracts to fit inside the time left for completion. The circadian arrhythmia cannot explain my craving for a punching bag. But, in between there are streaks of concentrated study where I feel like I…