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Old 02-29-2012, 03:03 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic View Post

My point is while he could easily have taken the position of "I am the superior intelligence and you all should bow down to my obviously higher intellect", in fact he did the exact opposite. His best character trait was his ability to explain something to me in a way that I did not need to spend 6 years at MIT to understand what he was talking about.


Mech
Your friend learned a lot of things from you.

Some of us are so passionate about the desire to learn about the physical world our emotional and communciation sets truly and miserably suck.

In other words, I can be a jerk. And I love to learn, and the best way I know to learn is to discuss, and "argue".

When I am trying to understand, define, and solve a problem, there are many confusing side channels and sideroads I head into.

Once I truly "Grok" something, or Understand it, I SHOULD be able to explain it down to basic principals fairly easily.

Right now, I don't think ANYONE has a good way to actually calculate the losses due to throttling.

Once you can calculate it, then you should be able to explain it.

If we can explain it, but can't back it with math, and we cannot verify with real world examples, then we are talking out our asses.
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