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zeptian commented on Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014) repositories.lib.utexas.e... · Posted by u/JustinSkycak

creer · a year ago

There are (probably) several billion works on creativity. Just reading and listing your own sources of inspiration on creativity is quite the endheavor. And that is not going to be exhaustive even in a PhD thesis. I'll give leaway there - on the contrary, mine THEIR list for stuff I missed.

zeptian · a year ago

fair take, but my view these days is the following.

there is way too much information-garbage floating around.

hence I try to stick to time-tested classics particularly when it comes to certain topics. now, your time-tested classic may be different from mine and certainly, i want to see if there are things I missed, and hence I mentioned Bohm's work, as something the author of this PhD missed.

zeptian commented on Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014) repositories.lib.utexas.e... · Posted by u/JustinSkycak

ysofunny · a year ago

I found that the line "science is a certain kind of persuassion" quite informative. I was not aware of such a skeptical thread of thought near science

zeptian · a year ago

End of the day, there are many belief systems that we human hold onto, but we need a method to settle opinion.

And science happens to be a certain kind of a method for settling opinion.

CS Peirce wrote about it so beautifully in his 1877 essay: "On the fixation of belief". go read it. here is a link saving you a google search. https://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html

zeptian commented on Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014) repositories.lib.utexas.e... · Posted by u/JustinSkycak

jeffreyrogers · a year ago

Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, reveals your prejudice against social science, and could be copied and pasted anytime a non-rigorous subject comes up. I'm actually interested in criticisms of this work, but your comment doesn't even rise to that level.

zeptian · a year ago

guilty as charged !

But Bohm's "On Creativity", to me presents a much deeper "philosophical" take on a) what is creativity and b) how to foster it. And I dont see it referenced in this text at all.

Again, since this is about persuation, it is what the reader wants to believe.

zeptian commented on Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014) repositories.lib.utexas.e... · Posted by u/JustinSkycak

zeptian · a year ago

These kind of studies are dubious. The PhD report could have been generated by an LLM in about a day, and no one would know any better.

It works like this:

Take any hypothesis. And have a lot of verbiage around it with dubious experiments to "statistically" validate it. and write a giant report which would eventually turn into a book.

Steve Pinker and his likes excel in this kind of stuff. Psychology/Sociology and sometimes economics are filled with these sorts of studies.

It is more persuation than science.

And one could could argue that science itself is a certain kind of persuation.

zeptian commented on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses about.fb.com/news/2024/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

zeptian · a year ago

InstaFail. Nobody wants this. We are already saturated with bull-shit through social media.

Now, there is yet another devices that manufactures BS before it hits our eyes.

Steer clear.

zeptian commented on As IBM pushes for automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff theregister.com/2024/09/2... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

mglz · a year ago

The "AI will automate it and we can let go of knowledgeable humans" requires a very naive and sinister mindset, which seems widespread among so called leadership roles. If you ask yourself how a rational person could make such a overcommitment to an unproven technology, the answer is: They are not being rational.

Why are they in leadership roles? No clue.

zeptian · a year ago

the wet-dream of management is to get rid of high-paid knowledge workers. Now, chatGPT is the answer to their prayers, or, so they think.

zeptian commented on As IBM pushes for automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff theregister.com/2024/09/2... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

lenerdenator · a year ago

> "With AI tools writing that code for us ... why pay for senior-level staff when you can promote a youngster who doesn't really know any better at a much lower price?" he said. "Plus, once you have a seasoned programmer write code that is by law the company's IP and it is fed into an AI library, it basically learns it and the author is no longer needed."

This betrays not only a misunderstanding of what LLMs can do, but a basic lack of knowledge of the software development lifecycle. Krishna gets paid $20 million a year to be this big of an idiot. He should lose his job immediately. He hasn't earned it.

Remember, your company's management would do anything if it meant they could get a dollar. Never bend over backwards for these troglodytes.

zeptian · a year ago

ex-ibm here.

Some context from an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554#41561970

Basically, management rot sets in with MBAs in charge who have no clue how software products get built. They see coders as overhead. Big Mistake. Short-term, it leads to some improved profits. Long term, it leads to cultural rot. and the org is doomed. Happening to amazon and aws as we speak.

zeptian commented on Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform · Posted by u/mceoin

zeptian · a year ago

very nice app. just the front-end browser component alone is super-slick. but expecting users to bring their data to your platform is a barrier to adoption.

zeptian commented on IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says theregister.com/2024/09/1... · Posted by u/Bender

zeptian · a year ago

why is this news ? they do it twice a year.

they have way too many employees, and it will take them a decade of such cuts to "rightsize"

zeptian commented on The centrality of stupidity in mathematics mathforlove.com/2024/09/t... · Posted by u/ColinWright

kzz102 · a year ago

I want to distinguish two sources of "feeling of stupidity". One come from the challenge of grasping a difficult concept. The other is the smack on the head when you fail to see a simple but brilliant insight. In my view, you should not feel stupid in either situations, and the teacher should try to ward you against this feeling.

For the first type, I argue it's simply the resistance to a new mental model. The article's example of epsilon-delta language is a perfect example. It's a new way of thinking that takes time (and it did historically) to sink in. Competing on how fast you grasp this new concept is stupid. When the new mode of thinking becomes natural, it won't care how long you took to adapt to it.

For the second type, it's simply an impossible standard to reliably have eureka moments. Clearly, smarter people will have more of these than the average people, but no one can do this reliably. On the other hand, while it takes more work for us mortals to have these insights than a genius, there are plenty of ways to get there that don't require a super high IQ. Teachers should try to foster these moments because they are huge confidence builders, but try to minimise the impact of someone showing off their brilliance.

zeptian · a year ago

the two types are nice !

the author likens your first type to building "mental" roads, which form new pathways of cognition, and takes time, and has emotional resistance, and requires conscious effort and practice to carve out. also to relate the roads to other roads correctly, so the mental map of roads is consistent, and can be traversed.

the problem is that most students do not grasp ideas fully and develop facility with it. when this happens, the foundations are shaky, and facility is lost. then, they label themselves as incapable which leads to a vicious cycle where, the belief of being stupid leads to more stupidity.

the second type is where the roads (ideas) are there, but a route from source to destination is not clear, and the aha moment is when you see the full path in the mental eye.