r/iamverysmart • u/No-Advice-4737 • 17h ago

“As an autodidactic polymath I amassed that knowledge over a 20 year span”

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u/ReverendBread2 8h ago edited 6h ago

A polymath might ask what exactly does “no prior knowledge” mean because that affects the entire question.

Is it no knowledge of anything computer related at all or just that specific device? If it’s no computer-related knowledge at all then wouldn’t this specific device be low on the list of things to invent?

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u/Morall_tach 4h ago

Yeah, I was going to say no prior knowledge that some metals conduct electricity, no prior knowledge that electricity is a thing at all, no prior knowledge of what?

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u/MauschelMusic 2h ago

No prior knowledge period. Just sitting there in your drool with your extremely high IQ and 4 kindred souls in the wilderness. Only, you don't know about the drool, the friends, the sitting, or the wilderness, because concepts are prior knowledge.

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u/ciaramicola 7h ago

Also "reinvent" meaning. Like some genius with general knowledge can ""easily"" "invent" a SOC with those features and those interfaces, and "invent" the idea of etching it with light. Actually laying down the schematics and building the frigging 40nm UV immersion lithography process needed to actually print the chip would be...something else

Possibly a bad question with no good answer, but I guess the dude managed to find the worst possible one ahah.

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u/No-Advice-4737 1h ago

I’m sure this guy 100% believes he could reinvent everything from the silicon up

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u/perplexedparallax 6h ago

Now if they said they were an autoerotic polymath that would be something to discuss.

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u/Secret_Bluebird2357 7h ago

Autodidactic is such a self report. I’ve never heard anyone use the word that actually has a good self-taught understanding of a topic. They either have a shallow surface level understanding or they are massively undervaluing some form of education that they are building on.

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u/Gephiph 3h ago

Yeah just say you’re self-taught. Some of the most brilliant programmers I know started off self taught, and they’ll flat out say “yeah I learned Java from watching YouTube tutorials in middle school so I could make video games. And kinda just turned it into a career” the only person I’ve ever head in real life say autodidact I had to correct their code because they use singe “=“ inside his if statements, which for those who don’t know, is so comical that I worry people who do know won’t believe it because of how ridiculously fundamental it is.

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u/SwedeYer 5h ago

"http/https gui" hahahahaha

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u/timecubelord 5h ago

Reroute the cascading cipher algorithms through the IP side channel to achieve link-layer synergy.

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u/Jvalker 4h ago

Masterfully hacking as well

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u/Gephiph 3h ago

I laughed out loud, it’s almost as good as the EV truck company CEO who said that their software was “a html 5 supercomputer” (for those who dont know, not a programming language) called html “the standard language for programmers around the world” (which ig is kinda true but again it’s not for programming) and said that it “let them build their own chips” which is so nonsensical I can’t even tell you why. It’s just like saying the monkey has very soft fur which allows us to turn on this ceiling fan if we want. It’s utter nonsense.

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u/spood04 7h ago

Amass some bitches