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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by mhb on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:47PM (#24925883)
OK - what's a bikeprime? Google couldn't help me.
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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by strstr on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:50PM (#24925908)
It’s a rhetorical construct here: they mean a non-bike thing that also requires scraping your knees to learn.
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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by ky3 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:06PM (#24926309)
If the original bike was bike, then the next one is bike' (pronounced bike prime), and the one after that bike'' (bikeprimeprime), and so on.

Compare the orthography to bike_0, bike_1, bike_2, etc.

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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by deedree on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:52PM (#24925916)
From the context I would say, the latest fad. The new hot thing, mode, rage, trend?
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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by seibelj on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:03PM (#24925977)
What you’ve never heard of bikeprime? It’s the latest thing in gammatronics
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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by vmception on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:09PM (#24926741)
bikeprime, double plus good!
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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by seibelj on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:46PM (#24926980)
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Re:Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with... by wes1350 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:08PM (#24926324)
Probably a reference to “priming” variables in mathematical contexts. You have variable x and then variable x’ comes up. Or you learn to ride a bike and then later on you’re supposed to figure out how to ride a bike’.
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