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Awesome article. I like the bulleted conclusions at the end, but this nugget in the middle is my favorite: "While he moves every few years into new and fertil
by logn 14y ago
Awesome article.
I like the bulleted conclusions at the end, but this nugget in the middle is my favorite:
"While he moves every few years into new and fertile unconquered territory, he exercises patterns that have served him well over and over: cleanly-styled C, data compression, numerical methods, signal processing, pertinent abstractions, media formats, open-source licensing, and “by-hand parsing.”"
I think sometimes for me I tend to wander from one technology and field to the next, but there's definitely something to be said for focusing a bit more on certain languages/technologies and what you're interested in.
- gwern 14y agoReminds me of http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-lessons.html#feynmann http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le... > "Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!'"