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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:56:18 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:57:48 -0700, john larkin
><jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:31:53 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>><invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:4mt7cjdnqt4i601lvdsrtivbg4iucgfuj4@4ax.com...
>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:48:36 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:r7m6cjtpei82u2kg6a7g40r07okju99v5n@4ax.com...
>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:21:55 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On 19/08/2024 3:26 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:33:38 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 18/08/2024 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:14:51 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>>>>>>>>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:dta1cj1f3pudq93ard2o2ve4dadero917e@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 06:26:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On a sunny day (Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:07:52 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <06jvbjp36khao0m5ot65a1o1krricoasre@4ax.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>...
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I only got a couple of pages in AoE3,
>>>>>
>>>>>Which pages?
>>>>
>>>> Around 360.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Ok since posting the question I discovered that you're mentioned on pages xxx, 294, 360, 524
>>>
>>>Bill Sloman should probably not read page 360. 
>>>
>>
>>His whining centers on my inability to explain how I design
>>electronics, or where ideas come from.
>>
>>Sorry, I don't know. It just happens. If invention happened from
>>definable algorithms, everything would be invented all at once.
>
>Well, I do much the same - I wake up with a new idea.  And cannot say
>how it happened - I slept through it.  

Some people, like us, invent in our sleep. Some famous people invented
while walking.

I used to think that overnight ideas were delivered in my morning
shower, and they are, but now I believe that ideas happen in a nice
hot shower too, any time of day.

>
>To patent something, it is _not_ required that one know how it works,
>or even that one's theory be correct.  Many are not. Only the ability
>to make it work on request is required.


Right. Ultimately, we really don't know how anything works.

>
>Fifty years ago, Jacques Hadamard queried his colleagues (like
>Einstein, etc) on where their insights came from - they woke up with
>the idea, or it just came to them after intense thinking.
>
>.<https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691029313/the-mathematicians-mind?srsltid=AfmBOorGBqfWjsV-ccnfGdcrSWWK0XKWZw43dFPWsgape-G7rfI4xCTy>
>
>Joe Gwinn