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Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike

Mike BoydCited 3× on HN, 2018-2023
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5.2M views · 10 years ago · demo · evergreen

Mike Boyd takes up Smarter Every Day's challenge to learn to ride the Backwards Brain Bike, a bicycle whose steering is inverted, and rides 50 meters. It shows how hard it is to unlearn a motor skill.

Used as a reference when discussing inverted-steering analogies and how hard it is to rewire a learned skill.

Neuroscience & the brainEducation & learningMagic, puzzles & curiosities#backwardsbike#learning#neuroplasticity#challenge#bicycle

3 comments from Hacker News

@aurizon2023 · in “Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning”

This reminds me of the 'poisoned' clown bike, which has a geared stem that inverts steering, move bars in an arc to the right = bike goes left. ▶ this video

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@hamaluik2020 · in “Right-to-left-language-induced GUI bugs”

I had never really considered RTL design until I decided on a whim to support Arabic in an app [1], and before doing so I would have easily laughed at this. After doing so, I can completely understand it. It seems so simple—text just goes from right to left instead of left to right, but truly grokking that seems impossible for me. It's like riding a bike with the handlebars backwards [2]—it just doesn't work in your brain, as much as your higher-level thoughts seem to understand it. I was lucky that Flutter did almost all of the heavy lifting for me, but I spent more time than I'd like to admit ironing things out and I still don't think it's quite right. [1] link [2] ▶ this video

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@jesusth12018 · in “4D toys”

Yeap, ▶ this video this guy took a more serious attempt at learning to ride the backwards and it seems it didn't take him that much time.

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