These are the slides to go with the video of the talk at http://www.confreaks.com/videos/200-lsrc2009-programming-intuition
The embedded audio and videos don't show on slideshare; download the PowerPoint file to see them. For the first three, you can go to the source material here:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/08/graham_on_start.html, starting at 38:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1QM6YZC45g&t=4m24s
31. Benoît Mandelbrot:
There was a long hiatus of a
hundred years where drawing did
not play any role in mathematics
because hand and pencil and ruler
were exhausted. They were well
understood and no longer in the
forefront. And the computer did not
exist.
32. Benoît Mandelbrot:
When I came in this game, there
was a total absence of intuition.
One had to create an intuition from
scratch. Intuition as it was trained
by the usual tools—the hand, the
pencil, and the ruler—found these
shapes quite monstrous and
pathological. The old intuition was
misleading.
33. Benoît Mandelbrot:
Intuition is not something that
is given. I've trained my
intuition to accept as obvious
shapes which were initially
rejected as absurd, and I find
everyone else can do the
same.
Editor's Notes
Last year: What you do
This year: How you think
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/08/graham_on_start.html, starting at 38:49
Seeing patterns
Knowing it’s possible (and desirable)
Practicing
Practicing outside programming
Tools that help (visualization and listening tools, immediate tools)
Policeman: “Oh, why do I always get hooked up with these spook details? Monsters, graves, bodies …”
Wood: “Cue flying saucer!”
Wood: “And cut! Print! We’re moving on! That was perfect!”
Producer: “Perfect? Mr. Wood, do you know anything about the art of film production?”
Wood: “Well, I like to think so.”
Producer: “That cardboard headstone tipped over. This graveyard is obviously phony.”
Wood: “Nobody will ever notice that! Filmmaking is not about the tiny details, it’s about the big picture!”
David Lean: “I just love making movies. I have a sort of burst of adrenaline when I get behind a camera. I just love them. I like lenses. I like looking through the camera. I like composing pictures.”
