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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by fhood on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:46AM (#18346685)
Abstract mathematics, and finding bugs, are not terribly closely related skills.
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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by vokep on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:18PM (#18347000)
They are in that they both require abstract thinking, working in rigid systems.
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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by 5trokerac3 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:36PM (#18348643)
I totally disagree. Good bug fixing hinges on the ability to mentally organize multiple potential, interrelated points of failure. It's being able to have a working sense of the architecture and chain of logic without having to go back to the source too often.

The difference between abstract thinking and bug fixing is literally left vs. right brain.

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