François Chollet on Twitter: "Fascinating how giving someone one semi-effective way to think about a problem seems to permanently shut down every other possible option. Much wasted intelligence thinking about "how do I use my hammer to solve this" instead of "what's the best tool to solve this""

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1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 27 Jun 2018
  PS: forget about gradients and affine transforms. It has become an unhealthy monomania.
  
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1. marrowgari‏ @mattarrow 27 Jun 2018
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  It's prevalent in every decision making application. The alternative to analyzing the nature of the problem before you write code is that you leave the analysis to someone else, and just build the code. Some people (researchers) like the former, some (engineers) like the latter.
  
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1. Andreas Klinger ‏Verified account @andreasklinger 27 Jun 2018
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  Imho root cause: We tend to focus on and glorify solutions instead of problems.
  
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1. Joshua Ulrich‏ @joshua_ulrich 27 Jun 2018
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  People often prefer heuristics.
  
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1. trylks‏ @trylks 27 Jun 2018
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  We need new tools but incentives are in using tools, not in creating them.
  
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1. Chip‏ @stillchip 27 Jun 2018
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  My favorite saying to force me to re-think a solution is: "When your favorite tool is a hammer, it's funny how every problem looks like a nail"
  
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1. Patti Dubyou‏ @unbalancedDad 27 Jun 2018
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  This is a root psychological phenomena. Not that it can't be overcome, but it takes a different kind of thinking to come at a problem with new solutions
  
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1. Dinesh Kulkarni‏ @Di_Ku 27 Jun 2018
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  Unfortunately tools in this space (and many in software) seem to take a long time to build, evolve, support and master. So there is a natural incentive to make the most of the few tools at one's disposal. Kinda like swiss army knife for repairs on a hike.
  
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1. Thomas is doing metaverse plumbing‏ @TomLisankie 27 Jun 2018
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  People are mesmerized by the money floating around that hammer.
  
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1. Abhishek ‏ @abhishek1point0 27 Jun 2018
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  Needed this. When you acquire new, effective tools, you're just looking for ways to apply it. I guess PATIENCE and not aggressively hating on your past methods (INSECURITIES) is the behavior to get out of this tendency.
  
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