▢ Blinded by “how”: blog.andymatuschak.org/post/690491775
A personal cautionary tale on subtle but serious dangers of neglecting “why” for “how”.
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Excellent post, thank you for writing this. I’ve struggled with finding that critical difference between why and how.
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thanks. Perhaps I should devote some time to RAC & to writing a compiler. Lots to think about.
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Do you think this is a downside of self taught learning at a young age? Since it’s primarily results oriented…
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Yes, but it’s complicated. Surely young autodidacts are still in a better place than they would be otherwise!
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: funny to me how once again we came to the same conclusions from totally different origins.
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: I only passed physics because I was able to derive the equations during the exam, I never managed to memorize them.
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Well written. The difference between knowing and understanding, & Vonnegut's quote about using semicolons both come to mind.
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