Silicon Valley has a lot of wanna-be Yodas. But Paul Graham has always seemed like the real deal to me.
Thus, as I’ve never known @paulg to be wrong at this level before, I must simply assume that I am not understanding what he is saying.
Because this seems dangerously wrong.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095993046276194304 …
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
I was thinking about how I learned to program by writing horrible (but to me exciting) Basic programs, and how much more effective it was e.g. to be bitten by an n^2 algorithm before learning about orders of algorithms, rather than the other way around.
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Replying to @paulg
Hi Paul. That’s great! But it’s great for a particular class of learners to which you belong. There is an entirely different classes of learners who learn primarily through abstraction. That’s my class. Your class calls my class learning disabled. We’re not. We’re super learners.
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
I'm willing to believe there are people like this, but judging from the people I've taught things to so far (YC founders and my kids and their friends) they seem to be a fairly small minority. And surely even you used verbs for a long time before knowing what a verb was, no?
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I suspect this colloquy may have a certain affinity with that engendered by this fascinating blog post by Fields medalist @wtgowers.http://bit.ly/2S3bL7H
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