Re:Why mathematicians make great comedy writers
by weeksie on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:10PM
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Yeah, I find plot construction in fiction writing to be very similar to doing software development. There's a general high level outline that you start with, then as you follow the story the complexity increases as you have to tie in disparate story lines.
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Re:Why mathematicians make great comedy writers
by prateekj on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:13PM
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The same logic can be applied to a variety of other fields as well. Many formulations within mathematics, signal processing, machine learning, AI, etc follow this. Higher level problems in real life usually have to deal with unknown terrains and the techniques need to adapt to that.