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Re:14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my car... by yassim on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @05:59PM (#3596547)
"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points." (Alan Kay and others)

Basicly I think its because they have different points of view on problems we can find similarities in.

Re:14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my car... by gwern on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @08:05PM (#3596939)
Ah, but which perspective? One can't sell non-apples, and 'a stroll through the insane asylum demonstrates that faith proves nothing'.

Perlis, epigram 39: "Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

Re:14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my car... by khafra on Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:30AM (#3598754)
Is there any way to discover how much selection effect occurs here? I wonder how many people apply insights from study in one field to another, and utterly fail because they weren't applicable at all.