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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by munificent on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:27PM (#25425383)
As Alan Kay said, "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by kelvin0 on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:59PM (#25426153)
Just look at some intractable problems in (T)ime, become almost trivial in (F)requency. Or the Laplace transform, brilliant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform
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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by andi999 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:16AM (#25429555)
plus or minus?
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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by munificent on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:22PM (#25432421)
You may be kidding, but I think it is true that pivoting to the wrong perspective can be actively harmful.

Consider, for example, the impact of anti-vaxxer's perspective that "chemicals are bad for the body".

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