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To be crude, this is bullshit. I am not a genius by any means whatsoever. I am 23. I have a degree in studio art, and I'm listed as a coauthor (along with small
by diiq 15y ago
To be crude, this is bullshit. I am not a genius by any means whatsoever. I am 23. I have a degree in studio art, and I'm listed as a coauthor (along with small teams) on papers in machine learning AND biochemistry. It is 10,000 times EASIER to contribute to multiple fields today! There is still so much that we do not know, and it is so
much easier to learn the basics. This kind of thinking, that we know almost everything, that we must specialize --- oooh, it enrages me. I can walk into any lab in the country, and two years later, have contributed significantly to published results; and that isn't a bold claim about me --- that's a claim about how easy it is to learn new things, and how much there is we do not yet know.
- hartror 15y agoI think the OP is also talking about the impact Leonardo had on the fields he worked in not just his scope. He made a similar impact that Einstein did in physics but in a dozen different fields. He was a polymath on an incredible scale.
- diiq 15y agoAh. So can you name a contribution Leonardo had that, like Einstein or Newton, is still relevant today? Because he was working from scratch, much of what he did was utterly wrong. His work on anatomy is astonishing, and the drawings beautiful --- but not correct, nor even a particularly good approximation. He also had no global system to spread his results, so what he did well languished, undeveloped (the helicopter, parachute, some choice geological ideas, etc. ) Leonardo was a genius --- but a genius of his ability would do more, of more importance, in more fields, more correctly, and with more far-reaching results, than Leonardo ever could in 1400's Italy.
- dereg 15y agoPlease read the article...