.@michael_nielsen The 'rigorous stage' is like the aim of the Peasants' Revolt in "1066 and All That": To be pardoned for having revolted.
Terry Tao on post-rigorous math. Beginning research students sometimes struggle with this https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/ …pic.twitter.com/Ar5O3slKeD
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@michael_nielsen Rigour is a chimera. Only 'as precise as the problem requires' exists. #2 should be called the unnecessarily precise stage - 1 more reply
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I see same cycle in many fields: beginner to expert to master. Mastery requires learning to be a beginner again
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Programming has stalled at the expert phase. Worship of complexity and cleverness
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@haldaume3 I feel like I, and probably many others, went through a similar progression with programming. -
Prob many fields: 1) just make it work, 2) learn the "right" way & only do that, 3) know when to break the rules
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it's amazing how many physicists skip stage 2... ;)
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