krazemon

Some background links:

- Talking to an imaginary friend as a way to increase understanding: http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks/day-1-th...

- Rubber duck debugging: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking

- Characteristics of an effective internal dialogue: http://journalpsyche.org/articles/0xc091.pdf

Could you elaborate on this statement? I'm intrigued...

> that he was also very much a pencil and paper guy.

I'm curious about this as well. In particular, I wonder whether Feynman wrote out his code on pencil and paper as that's something I've always fantasized about.

Has anyone experimented with this or something similar? I know this is an old article, but it's a novel, potentially interesting practice.

Can you refer someone who's interested in these whirls you're talking about to any sources to get started with?

I believe the person doing this was ztratar. If you go to the original post (http://www.zachtratar.com/tesla.html#.VjbLMY9Viko) and look at the comments, you'll see he posted a 1-year update. It sounds like he got good results but found the result not worth the effort. If anyone's interested in potentially continuing with this experiment, please PM me. This is something i'm quite interested in.

This is something I've been thinking about for a while. However, I approach it from the perspective of "Can we come up with a way that we can combine coding with meditation?"

I'd like something similar to soroban where coding can act as an entirely mental activity. My fascination with terse languages like J and K arise from this same ideal, being able to code only in your head.

I'd be curious to hear other people's thoughts on the desirability or feasibility of some form of algorithms or coding done entirely mentally, as I haven't discussed this with anyone to date.

I like thinking that the mistake 'Cary' in the title of this article was a meta-commentary on the nature of genetic mutations.

Out of curiosity, which jhani states have you reached and what specific anapanasati technique do you use (focus on breath at nostrils, breath throughout the body, kasina, etc). I'm working to achieve first Khama currently, but getting a bit stuck in access concentration.

Does your username have anything to do with these experiences or is it just a serendipitous coincidence?

This definitely seems like something I'd like to use and also contribute to if you are interested. One question I have is, how do you imagine routing being done? I don't see it in the examples so I was curious if you have ideas about this.

I'm a computer science major in my senior year and I've always been interested in contributing to a big Open Source lowel level software project like this. However, I lack experience working on Operating Systems so have struggled with getting started. Would this be a good place to try getting involved?