I think you're misreading the quote (and the quote is probably distorted/decontextualized). Teaching a subject qualitatively upgrades your understanding of it, whether or not you're any good at teaching. It forces you to re-understand it with new parts of your brain.
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IIRC
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Is true. I did a tiny bit of the circuit design on the router discussed there. I had no idea who Feynman was (“a famous physicist”—so what! MIT is full of them) and thereby missed the opportunity to learn from him. I was such a conceited idiot I probably couldn’t have anyway…
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Replying to @Meaningness @coyotespike and
lol i walked by your offices dozens of times on my way to michaela's ... damn that restaurant was amazing
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That was probably a bit later? The first summer (which was all the time I was there) we were located in a weird mansion in Waltham. I have NO idea why.
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In those days computers were heavy iron, I mean several hundred pounds, and network cables were no joke either, and all that stuff was just sort of scattered around in bedrooms and hallways. It was sort of fun, and surprising how many things DID work under the circumstances
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yes, even the CMOS VLSI Vaxen I was working on... the fans on a 6000 series machine would cut your hand off, not your fingers...
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Yes, those were beasts
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