Sherlock Holmes, Master Of Code
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 23:20
in Psychology & Sociology
What if I told you that fictional mysteries contain practical real-world methodologies? I have pointed out the similarities between detectives solving mysteries to software debugging before. My day job of writing code often involves fixing bugs or solving bizarre cases of bad behavior in complex systems.In a new book called Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova also compares the mental approaches of a detective to non-detective thinking. read more