dtashima

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   by dtashima 5y ago

   Maybe add error bars to give it a little more color?
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   by dtashima 9y ago

   I always felt that the Feynman Lectures were really, "an incredibly deep understanding of freshman level physics, targeted towards physics graduate students." (As opposed to freshman level physics targeted towards pre-med students
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   by dtashima 9y ago

   This is the key. The person you explained it to could probably not turn around and explain it to someone else, but could walk away thinking that they understood it.
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   by dtashima 9y ago

   In the workplace, there is also the problem of coworkers' (managers in particular) desire to listen to you explain it.
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   by dtashima 9y ago

   Well he made that statement in 1965, and then wrote QED, which is a layman's explanation of his Nobel Prize work, in 1985. So perhaps he set out to prove himself wrong. QED does explain quantum electrodynamics without any calculus or o
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   by dtashima 9y ago

   I think it's partly motivational. There is definitely a level of understanding where it feels like you understand a concept, and then when you try to teach it to someone else, you realize when they ask basic questions that you don&#x27