Could still be true: being a natural programmer correlates with a widely applicable thinking power... that is key to relatively few competitive fields, and that nobody knows how to teach.
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Logic is more general/fundamental than programming, and it can be universally applied, even in sports.
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Are leading baseball players or hedge fund traders sent off to study formal logic?
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No... but it would definitely help. P.S. "Sent off"? Like to logic camp?
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Also possible: it helps you think about very many kinds of problems, but less efficiently for any given problem than specialized training around that problem.
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"Math is generally useful" "No, pro baseball players don't go to math camp."pic.twitter.com/FSd1z2j3fc
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This just says that programming is not the single most valuable way to get better at, e.g. baseball. It doesn't disprove that it helps across lots of areas, just that a baseball player is better off working out and a hedge fund trader studying companies.
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haven't really seen serious people claim this? what a programmer needs, tho, is the ability to understand different fields to better adapt the programs to the needs of the clients, but I don't remember off hand any claim to the general powers of learning programming in any text
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like, I don't remember either The Art of Computer Programming or The C Programming Language introductions having such claims guess there are always crazyos that are gonna claim something like that about a discipline
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Maybe it's like weight-lifting to improve at say, tennis. Raw power may be an edge, but what trumps is tennis-specific training that works the muscles in concert.
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Nice article, Justin! Reminds me of
@ScottAdamsSays talent stacks. Fav quote: "Instead of asking if someone can write code, we should be asking whether they have the drive and personality to learn and understand the tools necessary to make them independently successful." -
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In Cuba, elementary school kids are told to play chess. Traditional art of problem solving.
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Opportunity costs.
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I wonder if that myth came from the days when you needed to know a little BASIC or Shell Scripting to operate a computer. Its certainly not true today. Learning logic, applied algebra, and how to think about procedures is useful, but not specifically Java or something
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I don't see how your conclusions follow from your reasoning? Programming can be generally useful without being as effective as specialized training.
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I don't see baseball professionals being sent to rationalst bootcamps either, and that knowledge obviously helps with thinking about almost any kind of problem.
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Moneyball 2: Ball++
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Learning logic would help perhaps, but, learning to actually use logic (versus emotion) in one’s thinking would be more useful, imho.
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