Ok, I'll start the ball rolling. I think you need to distinquish between types of coding skills. Separate "artistic", and "technical" skills. Some people have a very good knack for modeling a problem into a form that can be coded, and do it beautifully. While others are very good at the technical details of actually writing the code, in the most efficient and cross-platform-compatible manner.

It is sort of like the "story-problem" wall that divides good mathematicians from auditing clerks. Some people are very good with numbers, but have a hard time putting a real world problem into a mathematical equation.

So when someone gets to the point, where they can produce excellent models, AND can write excellent technical code to implement the model.... you have a talented individual. (Of course he may not be able to tie his own shoe's. :-) ).

I think you will see more "talented teams" than talented individuals, because there probably is a left-right brain symmetry thing going on here, and normally an individual will not excel at both.

Of course chemistry can help...... get high and do some ingeneous modelling, and the next day, drink coffee and code. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re: A muse on Talent by zentara
in thread A muse on Talent by kwaping

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