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Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology

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Doug Hoffman wrote:

> As for my kids, they are grown, educated, and working engineers.  The
> tools they used in college, such as Wolfram's Mathematica, were far
> superior to my lowly HP-35.  Along the way in their education I would
> often quiz them to see how the "system" was doing in teaching them.
> They weren't quite as good at estimating as I would have liked, but I
> believe they had a better understanding of the underlying math and
> physics than I did at their ages.

If they get in the right ball-park then that is usually a good enough 
estimate.

One of my colleagues, who was for quite a while the chief engineer until his 
promotion, could perform quite complex calculations of cryogenic heat  
transfer loads in his head and be in the right ball-park. I don't claim to 
be that good but manage to get in the right ball-park on my electronic 
calculations. I manage to get the apprentices up to reasonable speed at this 
too. This sort of ability is useful when you are asked for a quick "out of 
thin air" figure for something in a topic you are dealing with. For some 
youngsters it is an un-discovered art.

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Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Mentifex <mentifex@myuw.net> - 2012-02-17 11:32 -0800
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 18:31 -0500
    Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-02-18 04:52 -0500
      Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-02-18 08:57 -1000
    Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2012-02-18 12:21 -0800
      Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 10:30 -0500
        Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 15:50 -0800
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 16:30 -0800
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-02-18 05:28 -0500
    Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Mentifex <mentifex@myuw.net> - 2012-02-18 11:15 -0800
      Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2012-02-18 15:44 -0500
        Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 09:16 +0000
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "A. K." <minforth@arcor.de> - 2012-02-19 12:53 +0100
            Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 12:47 +0000
              Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 09:12 -0500
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-20 21:43 +0000
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-20 18:12 -0500
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-21 23:19 +0000
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2012-02-19 08:27 -0500
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "P.M.Lawrence" <pml540114@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 06:15 -0800
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2012-02-26 05:56 +1100
            Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-25 23:39 +0000
              Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-08 19:03 -0800
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 20:13 +0000
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology m II <C@in.the.hat> - 2012-03-29 20:45 -0600
        Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2012-02-26 09:43 +1100
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-21 17:12 -0800

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