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1/ I’ve thought for many years that strong verbal skills probably contribute to strong coding skills. “Code should read like a book!” was something a mentor told me that really stuck. Perhaps surprisingly- I’m not great with math- especially linear algebra of all things.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1208079432373563392 …
2/ I took two linear algebra courses in college and quite frankly I still can’t tell you confidently what an eigenvector or eigenvalue is. Calculus I thought was easier and more intuitive. Writing and reading (especially Philosophy)- loved it. Easy A.
3/ I do think writing skills overlap quite a bit in what makes up a big chunk of effective programming and even ML problem solving. And that is to take complex ideas and distill/organize them effectively.
4/ In fact if you can’t do this, you wind up burying yourself in your own mess of complexity quite quickly. You rapidly use up what little prescious mental resources you have to work with the problem (working memory, for example). You wind up tripping over your own feet.
Not great with maths? This statement blows my mind a bit. I mean, Im guessing you understand the below shenanigans?pic.twitter.com/U2hEbAfBoT
I’m able to read stuff like that slowly and carefully and try to get the core intuition out of it. But it’s a real chore and it’s certainly not comfortable. I was even a math minor and did well but played the game for grades more than solid understanding.
The language matters. This applies to spoken languages, too. OpenQASM and Korean Hangeul are quite elegant, while R and certain spoken languages (lines and circles everywhere) would be challenging, if not impossible, to beautify. I've never seen hard-to-read OpenQASM.
Yeah I do subscribe to the belief language itself shapes the way we think of things. I think of how clumsy Roman numerals are compared to Arabic, for example.
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