Cary Millsap: Profiling with my Boy

My web log for things I’m interested in, including design, software development, performance analysis, learning, and running a business.

Explaining things so your kid or boss can understand it may be completely different than teaching things that are learned better in a mentoring role because they are difficult to verbalize. In other words, for some things it's better to throw them in the deep end. "We don't experience the physical world itself, but rather the end product of a long causal chain of processes, from the senses to the brain. Not only that, but that end product is so amazingly elaborate and functional that most people live out their lives never realizing they have only indirect contact with the world." - Jack Loomis word: pacla word: donacton

That's a great, if laborious, way to explain Amdahl's law to someone without the mathematical background to understand a simpler formulation :)

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