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Lord, I make that mistake on HN nearly every month. At least you didn’t have a “Putnam award” moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.y
by reaperman 2y ago
Lord, I make that mistake on HN nearly every month. At least you didn’t have a “Putnam award” moment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
- dekhn 2y agoI've had something similar- when I was deciding what grad school to go to, I was explaining how RNA enzymes work to some professor at UC Boulder, who ended up being Tom Cech (who won the Nobel for discovering RNA enzymes); he had to correct a lot of the details I messed up. I ended up going to UCSF and fortunately didn't try to explain prions to Stanley Prusiner. In short, nearly everything I have learned is from saying dumb things in front of very smart people who instantly understood my misunderstanding and knew exactly how to explain it so I understood. That includes Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean telling me "your idea isn't so good, it's n-squared, here's a linear solution"
- reaperman 2y agohttps://youtu.be/2Vrhk5OjBP8?si=gDXZKYeFkVoAs_LG https://youtu.be/2Vrhk5OjBP8?si=gDXZKYeFkVoAs_LG AlphaPhoenix did an amazing experiment to measure the speed of electricity FWIW. His other videos are incredible as well and explain EM physics in an absolutely outstanding way.