Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
by bryanrasmussen on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:00AM
(#22831770)
I guess it is, it certainly seems like, although I had the memory that their main claim was that the ability to handle arbitrary mental models (not completely logical ones) was the differentiator between those who succeeded and not.
And embarrassingly this thing I've gone around believing for the last 14 years isn't so.
It seems like the conclusions of the study were overstated, but the general idea is correct: Those who apply rules consistently tend to do better at programming than those who don't. This is true even if their initial rules are incorrect, as they simply have to learn the new rules. They don't have to learn the skill of consistently applying rules.
1. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
2. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/papers/camel_hu...