Perhaps RERO is the right way to develop software, but it will fail you in math.
I suspect it might work quite well in collaborative mathematics. Publish (internally, to your collaborators) when you get a new idea, have a rough sketch of a proof, find a plausible conjecture, think of a good way of presenting something, etc. Eventually, of course, you'd need to clean it all up and get the bugs out, but frequent informal known-buggy "releases" might be an excellent way to get from zero to a high-quality research paper.
Hi everyone,
I am graduating as a philosophy student shortly, and want to pursue computer science / programming/ something-of-that-sort.
I am currently taking some basic math (calculus) and physics (mechanics) courses in order to obtain pre-requesits, and to develop a basic framework. My problem is that I can grasp concepts and ideas, but when it comes to solving specific problems with actual numbers, I seem to shut down. Specifically, it takes me much more time (read "hours") to solve problems that ought to take 10 minutes. This is a particularly bad thing on tests and exams.
I believe that the difficulty I am having stems from so little exposure to symbolic reasoning in the past 5-6 years. I am looking for resources, techniques and advice to "turbocharge" (to use CFAR terminology) my ability to absorb and deeply comprehend technical material, so that solving problems becomes second nature.
Thank you so much for your time,
Jeremy