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I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
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Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#102Does this have any thing to do with me being extremely awful/slow at competitive programming? I tried a few online sites like codeforces, hackerrank, codechef and after a few easy problems, I ended up getting stuck for forever. I had to often look for the solution which was more than often a trick that I hadn't come across and my existing knowledge base failed to take me there. Is there any way to improve this? To be…
Dude, same here! And it's not easy to squeeze out some time to practice with my tight work schedule. I'm just sticking to practice, hoping that more practice is what I need.
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#103I think fast when it comes to language and logic but my mathematical thinking is very slow. In math exams at university, I usually only managed to get about half way through most exam papers. Amazingly, I still managed to pass most math courses. I knew most of the answers but it took me so long to solve them that I could never finish the whole paper. I had to really know the stuff just to get an average grade.
During my engineering, among the eight semesters, I've been able to answer only 3 papers till the last question. And yet I passed in all of them. It was sort of frustrating, though.
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
You would be surprised how often people don't even notice if you respond to "hey, how are you", with "hi". But, really, the script you're meant to follow goes like this: Hey how are you? Hey, good, how about you? Pretty good Then, if the conversation is meant to continue, which it most often is not, one of you says "So ... what's up in your life?" or "So ... how's that thing you're working on going?" or some other mo…
I wonder if it's an Australian thing for the response to "how ya goin'?" to be "how ya goin'?".
In Germany, people say "Na?" or "Na du?" to which the other person usually responds the same.
It's not easy to translate but I think it's quite similar to the greetings mentioned above. Literally it's something like: Well? You? (and not 'well' in the sense of goodness, but rather questioning)
It's an interesting greeting and as a foreigner seemed very odd at first.
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if it's an Australian thing for the response to "how ya goin'?" to be "how ya goin'?".
In Germany, people say "Na?" or "Na du?" to which the other person usually responds the same. It's not easy to translate but I think it's quite similar to the greetings mentioned above. Literally it's something like: Well? You? (and not 'well' in the sense of goodness, but rather questioning) It's an interesting greeting and as a foreigner seemed very odd at first.
Which part/s of Germany did you hear that in?
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#106We slow thinkers are among good company, including Charles Darwin: "I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance, Huxley. I am therefore a poor critic: a paper or book, when first read, generally excites my admiration, and it is only after considerable reflection that I perceive the weak points. My power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought…
I’ve wondered recently if speed and intelligence have anything to do with each other at all. It does in IQ tests but Darwin by his account would have been average at best.
Further, the argument goes that there exists a g factor, and performance in a test that is sufficiently complex will be predictive of performance at anything else sufficiently complex ... Yet if we allow time to vary this seems to be so obviously false...
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#107We slow thinkers are among good company, including Charles Darwin: "I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance, Huxley. I am therefore a poor critic: a paper or book, when first read, generally excites my admiration, and it is only after considerable reflection that I perceive the weak points. My power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought…
I’ve wondered recently if speed and intelligence have anything to do with each other at all. It does in IQ tests but Darwin by his account would have been average at best. Further, the argument goes that there exists a g factor, and performance in a test that is sufficiently complex will be predictive of performance at anything else sufficiently complex ... Yet if we allow time to vary this seems to be so obviously f…
I think most people with high iq are awful to work with since they obviously lose interest trying to explain things to less intelligent people. This makes people feel bad around them, and they avoid asking them things.
I have seen nice people with high iq but I think it's more common that they are not great around people.
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Germany, people say "Na?" or "Na du?" to which the other person usually responds the same. It's not easy to translate but I think it's quite similar to the greetings mentioned above. Literally it's something like: Well? You? (and not 'well' in the sense of goodness, but rather questioning) It's an interesting greeting and as a foreigner seemed very odd at first.
Which part/s of Germany did you hear that in?
Several areas, but mostly Northern Germany. It's also quite common in movies/TVs, so I think it's quite widespread.
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#109Sounds like Daniel Kahneman system 1 and 2 in short. :)
Re: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
#110That's why I don't like meetings where you're supposed to come up with a solution on the spot and then break it down into tasks immediately.
That only works if you have lots of closely related experience so that the solution is trivial to you anyway, or if you're a genius. Most of the time you end up with shitty "knee-jerk" software that focuses on technical details way too much instead of solving the problem.
I'll think about it, maybe do some experiments / proof-of-concept, then we can talk about it again, then I'll think about your input, and then we can discuss the tasks and sub-tasks once things are starting to make sense.