Comments on: Intuition for the unintuitive http://jan-krueger.net/ke/intuition-for-the-unintuitive Jan Krüger's blog thingy Wed, 16 May 2012 08:08:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: marketing firms in tampa http://jan-krueger.net/ke/intuition-for-the-unintuitive/comment-page-1#comment-6597 marketing firms in tampa Sun, 02 May 2010 18:03:51 +0000 http://jan-krueger.net/?p=175#comment-6597 Thanks for this excellent post! well i'm definitely not a programmer, but your standpoint regarding intuition is awesome. Intuition definitely is very helpful in decision making, especially in cases where being rational is not beneficial. There are cases where you act based on what you feel. I think the reason behind it is that our subconscious recognizes clues on what is happening, based on patterns from our daily activities. Thanks for this excellent post! well i’m definitely not a programmer, but your standpoint regarding intuition is awesome. Intuition definitely is very helpful in decision making, especially in cases where being rational is not beneficial. There are cases where you act based on what you feel. I think the reason behind it is that our subconscious recognizes clues on what is happening, based on patterns from our daily activities.

]]> By: Jan http://jan-krueger.net/ke/intuition-for-the-unintuitive/comment-page-1#comment-5843 Jan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:10:43 +0000 http://jan-krueger.net/?p=175#comment-5843 Yeah, that kind of binary feedback is often good enough... but not when you're first learning to do something. As you get better at something, at some point you can get by with less accurate feedback... just like at some point it gets easier to deal with more added complexity. Oh, and you can actually get bad feedback even if something works. Computers don't tend to give you that kind of feedback, but humans do. Yeah, that kind of binary feedback is often good enough… but not when you’re first learning to do something. As you get better at something, at some point you can get by with less accurate feedback… just like at some point it gets easier to deal with more added complexity.

Oh, and you can actually get bad feedback even if something works. Computers don’t tend to give you that kind of feedback, but humans do.

]]> By: Dennis http://jan-krueger.net/ke/intuition-for-the-unintuitive/comment-page-1#comment-5842 Dennis Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:33:36 +0000 http://jan-krueger.net/?p=175#comment-5842 Nice one! There is one good thing about incoherent feedback about something being wrong: it rarely appears when indeed everything is right. More and more I merely notice that there *is* an error message, but don't even bother to read it, instead I just go back to the code I just wrote and look for errors. Often enough, intuition leads me to the right place. More fun, though: finding out that the error you just fixed wasn't the one reported. Just knowing something is wrong already helps immensely. Nice one! There is one good thing about incoherent feedback about something being wrong: it rarely appears when indeed everything is right. More and more I merely notice that there *is* an error message, but don’t even bother to read it, instead I just go back to the code I just wrote and look for errors. Often enough, intuition leads me to the right place. More fun, though: finding out that the error you just fixed wasn’t the one reported. Just knowing something is wrong already helps immensely.

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