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"You can't Google things you don't know exist" is a guiding principle to how I try to learn things. FWIW Teaching things yourself is much easier now, i.e. you
by mhh__ 5y ago
"You can't Google things you don't know exist" is a guiding principle to how I try to learn things.
FWIW Teaching things yourself is much easier now, i.e. you can get pretty much any textbook for free (nudge nudge wink wink). It's a truly great time to be fascinated by things
- WalterBright 5y agoI think of the Shazam app. When I first encountered it, I thought "must be using Fourier Analysis". Of course, that turned out to be true. But if I'd never gone to college, I would not know that FA existed, or if I did, I wouldn't know what it was good for. I'd probably invent some sort of ad-hoc ineffective algorithm for it. I've certainly seen a lot of ad-hoc kludge algorithms from smart people who simply didn't know there were excellent mathematical methods to solve it.