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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Feb 2019
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      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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    2. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 14 Feb 2019
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      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.

      21 replies 14 retweets 149 likes
    3. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 14 Feb 2019
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      I couldn’t understand calculus or it’s problem sets. It was impossible. I could, however, understand “Advanced Calculus” or “Analysis on Manifolds” or “Exterior Differential Calculus” because of the ease I have with abstractions.

      11 replies 5 retweets 80 likes
    4. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 14 Feb 2019
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      No blind pianist or New Orleans pianist tells a concert pianist that reading sheet music or playing on the beat is bad practice. But there‘s something in the other experience that wants to lecture Art Tatum or Ray Charles about needing sheet music/metronomes. That glitches on me.

      5 replies 2 retweets 82 likes
    5. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 14 Feb 2019
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      I know you meant well, but so do I. I get what you are saying. I just want you to be aware that my folks are coding right along side you. And we are every bit your equals. Sometimes your types are better for a project. But sometimes you need us too. And thanks for all you do!

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    8. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 14 Feb 2019
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      But some of us can’t easily even start from practice. We actually use abstraction to get started. The eversion of the 2-sphere, for example, was found by Steve Smale as an abstraction years before it was constructed as an instatiation....and by a blind mathematician I believe.

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    10. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 14 Feb 2019
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      I-IV-V Chord progressions. Epsilon delta proofs. IPA through vocal anatomy. Janet Left Step Periodic Table Turkish Aglutination rules Maxwell’s Equations as Curvature Eq

      7 replies 1 retweet 30 likes
      Lawrus‏ @levity 14 Feb 2019
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      Would Paul’s statement be more palatable to you if prefixed with “For neurotypicals”?

      3:01 PM - 14 Feb 2019
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