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by 3pt14159 2307 days ago
During high school I had an alarm. I would wake up within about 1 to 3 seconds of it going off, stand up, walk to the alarm that was in my washroom and turn it off just as it was starting. Every school day for years.

I became convinced that the precision of the brain at a task is partially a function of its reliability long before learning anything about machine learning.