Originally posted by starshipeleven
View Post
I've just seen what true complex shit is. I've seen things... lol.
Even a trained monkey can maintain a car or assemble a PC, as it is simple stuff. That's stuff designed from the ground up to be maintainable by humans with limited info available.
Now try go fixing a crypto algorithm, find what is wrong in an electronic board design, or find out why some car needs two or even three key turns to start up (and it's not because of battery or ignition issues, real life stuff, I have one, I'm not stupid) and tell me if your "intuition" helps.
You used basic reasoning without knowing it, probably. If you don't know how the engine works in a very basic way and that cables carry electricity and all basic stuff most modern day people know already, you would not be able to do anything.
I repeat, try to go fix something you don't have enough understanding of. That's where reasoning can't help for sure, and tell me if your "intuition" comes to the rescue.
As for me, I have fixed many things where I went in blind. Examples:
I have managed to make my car's fog lights turn on independently (where they were controlled by the BIU to only turn on when the headlights are on).
I managed to diagnose and fix a physically damaged PC with power issues so it would turn on with full reliability, and without making any physical changes.
I have fixed an expensive laser printer I have never worked with where it had streaks of missing parts of the image, without having to replace any parts - it is still working today.
Despite never taking a math class more advanced than pre-calc, I have created my own equation for trilateration (with the caveat that it only works with right triangles).
I "accidentally" created the complimentary filter when trying to program an IMU without even realizing it until I was done.
These are just a few examples of things I managed to accomplish striclty though reasoning. I didn't have [enough] resources to help me.
Here's what I don't get though: If you insist you're right about your claims, how does anything ever get invented or innovated? How do developers just simply know how to fix bugs that they never encountered? How do you think archeologists came to understand stuff like the Baghdad Battery or The Antikythera Mechanism? It takes more than just expertise and pre-knowledge to solve a problem.
Huh? I thought they were just very good and focused programmers.
So yeah, those people in the crypto field were very fucking good at math.
Never seen people like this on really complex stuff. Sure there are people that have more innate skill in some areas, but without training and experience they don't go beyond the "handyman" level.
Never seen people like this on really complex stuff. Sure there are people that have more innate skill in some areas, but without training and experience they don't go beyond the "handyman" level.
Comment