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A comment on Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018). Parent comment

Re:Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver ... by mr_toad on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:29AM (#30176603)
> I do not know the specific background of Mr Lee, but the thing I always tell myself is that you can teach programming to a microbiologist, but not microbiology to a programmer.

You can’t teach height.

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Re:Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver ... by sethammons on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:20AM (#30177096)
Are you agreeing and saying that learning some skills, like your height, comes from innate genetic wiring

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Are are you saying that height is something you can't teach and of course anyone can learn microbiology?

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