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		sudosysgen on Oct 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new biography of John von Neumann You may not, but hundreds if not thousands of people were able to push his work farther than he could. It's not beyond the ability of a regular person with enough work to understand what he understood. Really the biggest difference is speed.

kaba0 on Oct 10, 2021 [–]

Understanding something is not the same as being able to recreate it from scratch.

I can follow a math example’s solution, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I could solve it alone.

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