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Comment by stuxnet79

5 hours ago

> Compare that to a smart engineer who doesn't have that wisdom: those people might have an easier time jumping in to difficult problems without the mental burden of knowing all of the problems upfront.

My favorite story in CS related to this is how Huffman Coding came to be [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding#History

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