En/na Harold Buck ha escrit:
In article ,
(Bruce Leverett) wrote:

I was particularly surprised by the answer, "you are playing
opposition that is too strong". Suppose I had a professional baseball
player in my living room, and I showed him some videos of me playing
baseball, and I asked him what I was doing wrong. I'd expect to hear
an answer like "... here's the problem with your swing ... your throw
... your stance ... you need to run faster ... exercise ... etc." If
he answered, "you're playing opponents that are too strong", I'd think
he had lost it.

Bad analogy.

A better one:
(...)

Another analogy,

Imagine a boy who has just learnt to add and multiply who asks Mr Erdos:
"I have tried to solve Goldbach Conjecture but I did not prove anything,
what's your advice? and Mr Erdos advice is first solve some factorial
descomposition, make a list of prime numbers, ..."

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