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I assumed there must be something like this, but that notation is a pain.

What's wrong with something like "set arr idx newvalue"?

That was very good. The concerns on how funding should be posited is really interesting.

His thoughts on how definitions reflect different ways of thinking, as a human, is profound to me. The importance of communication discussed in the paper is relevant for any technical field.

Good assets can't polish turd. A solid core, however, can benefit from assets. They mention this point in the article.

A better counter argument would be a game which was completely abstract, hence not fun, being made fun with content.

So in counterstrike, if you were abstract blobs, the goal might be confusing, and not fun. But your not, you either want to blow up, or save, a building (assets assist communication.)

You know, I suspect it's much more common to find people arguing over proper cancer treatment, because they want to believe their care is right. And if they don't like math, or science, they'll make sweeping wrong statements about their health, because they don't know how to make the right explanation feel right.

I mean sure. It's just when I look at my heroes, Feynman, Polya, Dirac, etc. They all went to places like princeton.

And near as I can tell, that seems to be important. The only person I can think of who blew the door open was faraday, a spooky good experimentalist.

Granted it's rediculous to compare oneself to people like this. I'm worried I'm half depressed.

Worrying about specialization seems, to me, misleading. At least in math. People regularly use their entire experience on problems. The specialty just reflects your values and talents. I dunno, maybe I am wrong, I appreciate your thoughts.

My goal with my original post was to explain a strong desire to be "right" about things one cares about. I think this emotion is destructive, and unproductive, but I see it in myself. I think others might cope by not fighting it, pretending to know, then moving on with their life. Then some scientist comes along, tells then they don't, and they get defensive.

I've often felt I'm not smart enough to be a theoretical physicist, but smart enough to know the difference between a real explanation and word vomit.

And that is extremely stressful for me. There is a desire to feel like you can understand some key part of the world you live in.

Failing to get into academia feels like I've personally failed at calming this desire. And I hate it.

Sometimes I think people refuse to believe this course of life is necessary, it feels elite and exclusionary. Knowing your world shouldn't require this, it cant't.

But it does.

But what if you were paid to convince them?