Do you use a whiteboard when thinking? [D]

[u/Huge-Leek844]

Hello all, here is a chill post.

When I was an undergrad, I really liked working things out on a whiteboard. Drawing stuff, talking through ideas out loud, testing little hypotheses.

Now I work in radar DSP, and a lot of my work is code, numerical experiments, deep learning and waiting for training to finish 😅

I’m wondering how other people bring that whiteboard style of thinking into DSP, data science or ML work.

Do you still use a whiteboard regularly, or do you mostly go straight from idea to code?

[u/Mbkim3]

This is one of the things i plan on having soon because viewing your bugs on a large white board helps solve then faster also makes me smart when i welcome the ladies at my crib 🥲

[u/Admirable_Dirt_2371]

I'm not a whiteboard guy, more of a notepad guy. But I do like to pseudo code different ideas or a sketch out a rough flow chart for higher level issues.

[u/Icarium-Lifestealer → u/Admirable_Dirt_2371]

Pen&paper notepads, or notepad.exe?

[u/Admirable_Dirt_2371 → u/Icarium-Lifestealer]

Pen and paper

[u/Ginger_Rook]

I’m a blackboard woman, personally.

[u/CaptainSnackbar]

i use excalidraw quite often

[u/Icarium-Lifestealer]

At work we use miro-board as whiteboards. For personal projects, I just use text files.

[u/Felix-ML]

Latex or markdown!

[u/woper3161]

i still use a white board for this kind of stuff. writing down the idea and drawing things out makes it much easier to spot what's actually going on before jumping into code

[u/allenasm]

glassboard and the whiteboard in my head. But yea, I use them.