Maths and stuff.
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Sometimes I have a thing that I’d like to do, and I can just do it no problem, or maybe it’ll mostly work but it’s backwards or upside-down and I have to change a + to a - somewhere. Easy peasy. 20 mins.
Sometimes though, I think I’m doing something the right way, but it’s way off, so I put in fudges and fixes and it’s still not working but it’s a little bit better and then I start getting a feel for what the numbers are doing and then it just clicks And I can suddenly see what I’m supposed to be doing and I can take all the fudges back out and simplify things and it works great. Phew! All done, but it took a whole day of fiddling, or an evening then a sleep and a day of thinking about it then fixing it the next evening.
Some stuff I have to read about and watch videos for a week, then try them out in their own separate program before trying it out in my own. Sometimes even successfully!
Some stuff I’m just like ’WTF are these alien glyphs?’
I dunno what my point is. I’m just chatting...
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Yea one time I spent all day coming up with this equation:
round(sin( (180/pi) * (pi*loopindex – 4.712) ) * 0.5 + 0.5)And the very next day I found out it can be replaced using mod:
loopindex%2
Sure I was mad, but at least I know about mod now!
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sometimes i spend all day trying really hard to find a solution to a problem and nothing works, but then the next day i'll be doing something unrelated, like going for a bike ride or making my lunch, and... boom, the answer just comes to me lmao this brain just needs time
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The subconcious knows the answers. Unfortunately,most of the time its voice is being drowned out by the conscious.
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For some strange reason that I have no clue why, answers and ideas usually come to me in the shower. It's always been like that. And 99% of the time by the time I'm dried and dressed I've completely forgotten them. Sometimes they come back to me during some shower further down the line, other times they're lost forever. Maybe if I'm really, really lucky (or unlucky if it involves a lot of work) the idea or solution will make it onto paper. Usually not though.
It's like the shower is some other existence but I struggle to poke the ideas through to this reality. I knew I was never keen on water :D
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@Martin Water is nice :D
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Check out ‘The Macgyver Secret’ by Lee Zlotoff. He’s the guy who wrote Macguyver TV series all those years ago.
It’s a subconscious way of unlocking your mind and... ties in with your shower revelations.
In a nutshell it explains certain activities you do put your brain into a certain state where it starts to chomp through the problems you’ve been storing. Listening to music is usually a no no, driving can work, showering works, reading or watching a film won’t etc... it’s putting your mind to an almost automatic task without it having to work on anything too complex, and it’ll get to work without you realising it. Before you know it you’ve come up with the answer you didn’t even know you were working on. -
@pugmartin It was driving to work for me. I usually have to drive 30 miles to work every weekday (not lately though). On the motorway I tend to cruise in the slow lane which gives me a chance to problem solve while driving in "almost autopilot".
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@toxibunny Sometimes you do have to just go with what works, even if it looks crazy at the time. Provided you have the patience and the motivation you can always refactor your code later.
I code as part of my job and have found (that as with a lot of things), if something is giving you a headache then put it down, do something else and come back with fresh eyes.
Many times I have been working and near the end of the work day I hit a problem that I cannot seem to solve. I come back the next day having slept and have a "Aha!" moment.
Hope that is a bit helpful.
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@spt-games
Same here more times than I would have thought possible. It’s crazy how being away from the screen helps to form something properly
