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A lot of useful specialized problems are just patterns.

It doesn't need to know the capital of Togo, metabolic pathways of the eukaryotic cell, or human psychology.

What if knowing those things distills down to a pattern that matches a pattern of your code and vice versa? There's a pattern in everything, so know everything, and be ready to pattern match.

If you just look at object oriented programming, you can easily see how knowing a lot translates to abstract concepts. There's no reason those concepts can't be translated bidirectionally.



In fact, a couple years ago they were saying that training models on code translated to better logical thinking in other domains "for free"




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