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Seventh, Take a stage effect and make a
close-up effect out of it.
Eighth, Take a close up effect and make a
stage effect out of it.
Ninth, Take any trick and solve the
mechanical problems.
Finally, we stand on the shoulders of
those that have gone before us. Just keep
standing on them.
The Outlandish
I was a programmer during most of my
life. I made my living by going into small
companies that were in trouble and had to
get a product out. I had to solve problems.
These were very severe problems. I had
no one else to turn to. Often when I would
solve a problem I would come up with
outlandish solutions. I would attempt to
come up with ten or more of them.
Here is one of my operating philosophies.
Come up with a solution no matter how
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outlandish; just come up with a solution. For
example, one solution that always works is
to build a look up table that contains every
possible solution for some kind of input.
This would work with multiplication. If you
want to multiply two numbers together, join
the two numbers together and use that as an
index into a lookup table to get your answer.
Now this is very impractical. The memory
required to multiply any two numbers would
require a very large memory. However, it
is a solution. Don't you see this? It is a
solution. It is just a bad one. But it is a
solution. You can work on improving this.
For example, you could study your data and
realize the set of numbers you need to
multiply are very small. So a small lookup
table could be very fast and practical.
The point is that if you have a solution, no
matter how outlandish, you do have a
solution. You just need to get a better one or
improve that one.
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