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The gurus never took an EE course.
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SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Ground_Loop on August 29, 2022, 12:30:39 am ---
--- Quote from: ataradov on August 23, 2022, 05:12:50 am ---Horowitz got a Ph.D in physics from Harvard. Why would he need to take an EE class?

None of those people are geniuses, they were just good at what they were doing. There are a ton of people like this.

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I've always maintained that that the best engineers are also physicists.

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Not sure that this statement can be backed up by any evidence though.

Bicurico:
I have met brilliant minds. They fascinate me. But somehow it is like a D&D game: you can only distribute your 100% total in intelligence, social skills, etc. Put everything into intelligence and you lose all other skills.

I once met this brilliant guy working as a programmer and heavy maths. He had really poor social skills. At the gala dinner you could literally see him mentally compile code, while others were having a laugh. It was so bad that he couldn't really coordinate his body. I mean he could walk, but it looked strange. But yes, he was the brightest mind in the company. He could solve math problems in no time. When he was hired, in the interview they gave him a math problem that nobody could solve, just to see how the candidate would handle it. Well, he did solve it.

I know that I am not dumb and fairly smart. But I have met people that are so much smarter than I. Where I need to read a concept several times and think about it, so that I finally understand it, others get it on the first reading.

It is no problem to not be as smart, as other skills like social skills get you further than smartness alone.

Want to see an example of smartness? I find this video amusing:



Still have not fully understood all the details...
Zero999:

--- Quote from: ataradov on August 23, 2022, 06:02:02 am --- And I personally  refuse to worship people just because they have more recognizable names.

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I'm more interested in people who aren't so well-known who have contributed to technology. Jagadis Chandra Bose springs to mind.
Kjelt:

--- Quote from: Bicurico on August 29, 2022, 08:15:41 pm ---When he was hired, in the interview they gave him a math problem that nobody could solve, just to see how the candidate would handle it. Well, he did solve it.
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What a blunder then from the inquirer. It could be solved.
In a company I was given a test for which you get half an hour precise to finish it. But question #5 of 10 would take about twenty minutes to solve. After one minute I saw that this would take too long and skipped it continuing with the other questions.
Got a 9 out of 10 and the guy who took it said "only 15% skips that question which is the right thing to do to maximize your score"
After that I googled it and this was done often inuniversities to test insight.
ataradov:

--- Quote from: Kjelt on August 29, 2022, 09:49:43 pm ---After one minute I saw that this would take too long and skipped it continuing with the other questions.
Got a 9 out of 10 and the guy who took it said "only 15% skips that question which is the right thing to do to maximize your score"

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In school I participated in a programming olympiad and for one of the problems a program needed to output "yes" or "no" for a given set of inputs. I did not have time to properly solve the problem, so I just printed "yes" for any inputs and got some extra points for free. According to the rules, the code was only looked at if there is a draw, and it never came to it.
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