wnoise comments on Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis - Less Wrong

69 Post author: pjeby 26 February 2010 08:45PM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 27 February 2010 09:22:02PM 10 points [-]

Some programmers do something like this when they're stuck on a problem - they call it Rubber Ducking. Googling it I just found 4 separate stories about students having to explain their programming problems out loud to teddy bears before they get to ask a teacher.

Comment author: wnoise 27 February 2010 09:34:13PM 14 points [-]

I prefer the teddy bear, because then you can refer to it as the "bug bear".