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Sarah Constantin
"Handy" people are more scientific than non-"handy" people. They believe in physics at a deep level, so they can reason about physical objects without relying on user interfaces. Everything is made of raw materials; everything can be repurposed.
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Joscha Bach 7. svi
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In "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", Robert Pirsig calls this distinction the "romantic" vs. the "classical" mind and explores it in some detail. Classical minds tend to build a functional model of things they interact with, romantic minds a descriptive and normative.
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Halikaarnian 7. svi
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Yes, and IMHO it was necessary to instantiate the digital world...I loved the descriptions in Turing's Cathedral of the various hacks to ancient cars and houses made by Julian Bigelow, one of the key minds in the creation of the IAS computer.
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Max Kesin 8. svi
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Feynman was quite handy, and used visual intuitions for math
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Max Kesin 8. svi
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From “Surely you’re Joking”
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👁‍🗨 πㄕㄨㆤㄉㄜ 8. svi
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Heinz von Foerster (Cyberneticist) used the term "trivial" instead of "handy". If you can read German, I can recommend reading
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