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Pāṇini was probably the only man I would say was comparable to Einstein in intelligence.
I can't imagine by what path you make that assessment, but... Any discussion of outliers in intelligence that mentions Einstein but not Newton is simply missing a difference of several standard deviations.
> Six months before Rajpopat made his discovery, his supervisor at Cambridge, Vincenzo Vergiani, Professor of Sanskrit, gave him some prescient advice: "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong." > Rajpopat said, "I had a eureka moment in Cambridge. After 9 months trying to crack this problem, I was almost ready to quit, I was getting nowhere. So I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the summe…
In general, for complicated items, I prefer to code at one place and think at another place. They seems to require different parts of your brain, and have different 'comfortable spots'.
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I can't imagine by what path you make that assessment, but... Any discussion of outliers in intelligence that mentions Einstein but not Newton is simply missing a difference of several standard deviations.
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Pāṇini was probably the only man I would say was comparable to Einstein in intelligence.
I can't imagine by what path you make that assessment, but... Any discussion of outliers in intelligence that mentions Einstein but not Newton is simply missing a difference of several standard deviations.
Some authors have suggested that he likely used his students minds as "scratch pad" to hold temporary ideas expressed as succinct verses.
1. Why is this on phys.org 2. Why is the writing so dramatic
This was written by Cambridge and published on their website. It was republished by phys.org which aggregates science, research, and tech news. It might be better if the link was changed to the original article on Cambridge’s website: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/solving-grammars-greatest-puzz...
> Six months before Rajpopat made his discovery, his supervisor at Cambridge, Vincenzo Vergiani, Professor of Sanskrit, gave him some prescient advice: "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong." > Rajpopat said, "I had a eureka moment in Cambridge. After 9 months trying to crack this problem, I was almost ready to quit, I was getting nowhere. So I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the summe…
I believe I have experienced this multiple times, but I remember one event in particular when I couldn't solve a book exercise for several hours, I slept in frustration. When I woke up I knew the answer immediately as if it was obvious.
Pāṇini was probably the only man I would say was comparable to Einstein in intelligence.
Also discussed here: "PhD student solves 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997962 (116 points | 15 hours ago | 42 comments)
> "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong." True in so many situations, Vincenzo.
--Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
> Six months before Rajpopat made his discovery, his supervisor at Cambridge, Vincenzo Vergiani, Professor of Sanskrit, gave him some prescient advice: "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong." > Rajpopat said, "I had a eureka moment in Cambridge. After 9 months trying to crack this problem, I was almost ready to quit, I was getting nowhere. So I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the summe…
Is there a specific term for this subconscious phenomenon? I believe I have experienced this multiple times, but I remember one event in particular when I couldn't solve a book exercise for several hours, I slept in frustration. When I woke up I knew the answer immediately as if it was obvious.