Kush

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I recently watched Grant Sanderson’s (the man behind 3blue1brown) lecture on Math’s pedagogical curse at JNM 2023, and I think that it is a very interesting topic which I would like to loosely extend to programming and computer science in general. He talks about how rigor is a gift to mathematics but it simultaneously decreases the pedagogical clarity if given too much focus on. This, he says is the math’s “pedagogical curse”.

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So today I had an existential crisis due to a single thought. You probably think you have infinite creativity like me. Everyone thinks their thoughts are not bound, right? Well, I just hit the boundary today. You are not creative. Or at least creativity is not what you think it is.

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Most people think hacking is basically writing hundreds of green lines on a fancy-looking terminal. Well, maybe it is, but it’s damn hard for sure. Computers don’t get hacked by pushing a button. I recently participated in a CTF, and it was fun.

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A question I get asked surprisingly often by my friends is how I learnt “coding”. First of all, I hate to call it “coding”, and being called a “coder”, but that’s how “non-coders” see it. There is quite a misconception about how programmers work, and what programming is in reality.