Unfortunately, many modern hackers (myself included heh) are adopting Edison's method: Build before learn, try everything, bruteforce a solution, skip math. Hac

Unfortunately, many modern hackers (myself included heh) are adopting Edison's method: Build before learn, try everything, bruteforce a solution, skip math. Hackerspaces are particulary guilty of this non-optimal behaviour. The opposite of this is a man of science.