Emacs for Android

Posted Jun 30, 2023 20:07 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Emacs for Android by mpr22
Parent article: Emacs for Android

Well, it weren't me that said it, it was a doctor friend.

> who could get good A-level results in three STEM subjects

As one of the last baby-boomers, who tried to get into medical school, back then your average trainee doctor was made a UCCA offer of "three passes". (Okay, most of them went on to get one grade higher across all three.) What annoyed me was that, of my friends who got in, only one of them iirc had better grades than me :-) It is what it is. (Gen-X? 20 years younger than me?)

> That said, of course, being book smart opens up whole new vistas of folly that people who aren't have no access to.

More and more as I get older, the importance of experience gets rammed home. You can be the smartest person in the world, and if you haven't met that situation before, you'll make the wrong call ... (As someone "on the spectrum", intuition often beats logic, and we don't have intuition. That said, we do have a sixth sense, which I regularly describe as "hang on, something here doesn't add up".)

Cheers,
Wol

Emacs for Android

Posted Jul 3, 2023 12:39 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Expertise (i.e., knowledge gained from [repeated ideally] experience) can be a siren song. The expert can be over-confident when faced with some new situation, and not recognise when it falls outside their experience (or the experience of those who handed down their expertise to the expert in education). And they can go badly wrong - refusing to cede authority, refusing to acknowledge their lack of expertise, doubling down from one mistake to the next.

Fresh eyes reasoning from first principles may well be better then.

Non-expert intuition can be critical in recognising when experts have gone off their previously beaten tracks, and gotten lost in their own hubris.