August 04, 2006, at 10:04 PM
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From Lucent:

In 1976, Greene, Sternberg, and Lepper [*] captured and documented the precise cause of your workout failings by playing math games with children. At first, the kids seemed to like solving the problems on their own merit. Then came the money. Once experimenters stopped doling out tangible rewards, the children lost interest altogether.
The accepted interpretation is that external motivation easily displaces internal, regardless of the latter's strength. And once the external motivator stops giving feedback, the initial does not return. Money was able to "kick out" the children's initial internal desire to play the mathematical games—permanently.

[*] in a paper entitled Overjustification in a token economy published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Could Google (again) n-grams be useful to Maxi-S (one of my father's venture) ... on principle it surely is.

Do I need Stickies?

I read about Software Carpentry before but never really bother looking into it thoroughly . I might in the future (when I am done with SCIP :P ... not really related).

Learning LISP is inviting but ... not sure it would fit my brain :P (plus the Haskell community seems nicer, more open).

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