From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-22T03:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Necessary for all rails employee know computer knowledge?

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Todd Benson wrote:

| Albert, a good example of what Ellie is saying would be -- in the ME
| world -- like approximating a complex vibration with small
| oscillations of a spring (doesn't have to be a spring; i.e., it could
| be a very large 3-d pendulum with small movements).  Once you do that,
| the real-world problem becomes incredibly easier than factoring in
| many parameters not required.  In effect, you solve the problem
| ideologically before you brute-force attack it with a turing machine.
| Granularity.

'If you all you have is a scalpel, every problem looks like neurosurgery'?

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