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Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 02:15 PM EDT |
I've always had a bad memory for names, dates (I would mix the numbers up), and
formulas.
I got through mathematics (well, up to abstract algebra) by being able to derive
the formulas I needed at the time, due to a small help from a very out-of-date
trig book.
The book was from somewhere around 1925-35. It had a picture of a unit circle,
with all the trig functions shown corresponding to the line segment. All I had
to do was picture what the problem was, and the match it against the unit
circle... and almost immediately had the correct trig function, or the steps of
the derivation in mind.
I've always worked in images (might start with words, but very quickly move into
images), so image pattern matching in my mind worked much better throughout
school. It only failed me for abstract algebra as I could generate no good
images for that field.
Programming was never a problem - all programs were "animated" giving
me the appropriate steps. All I had to do was write them down. It got really
easy (even large systems could be visualized) once I learned to write down the
specifications. Extracting them from the users/customer/management might be a
bit tricky, but it identified the unknowns - and and for those I would take the
easiest solution first. Since this made it modular, it also meant I could make
easier substitutions later.
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