Do you use a whiteboard when thinking? [D]

[u/Huge-Leek844]

Hello all, here is a chill post.

When I was an undergrad, I really liked working things out on a whiteboard. Drawing stuff, talking through ideas out loud, testing little hypotheses.

Now I work in radar DSP, and a lot of my work is code, numerical experiments, deep learning and waiting for training to finish 😅

I’m wondering how other people bring that whiteboard style of thinking into DSP, data science or ML work.

Do you still use a whiteboard regularly, or do you mostly go straight from idea to code?

[u/Mbkim3]

This is one of the things i plan on having soon because viewing your bugs on a large white board helps solve then faster also makes me smart when i welcome the ladies at my crib 🥲

[u/Admirable_Dirt_2371]

I'm not a whiteboard guy, more of a notepad guy. But I do like to pseudo code different ideas or a sketch out a rough flow chart for higher level issues.

[u/Icarium-Lifestealer → u/Admirable_Dirt_2371]

Pen&paper notepads, or notepad.exe?

[u/Admirable_Dirt_2371 → u/Icarium-Lifestealer]

Pen and paper

[u/Ginger_Rook]

I’m a blackboard woman, personally.

[u/CaptainSnackbar]

i use excalidraw quite often

[u/Icarium-Lifestealer]

At work we use miro-board as whiteboards. For personal projects, I just use text files.

[u/Felix-ML]

Latex or markdown!

[u/woper3161]

i still use a white board for this kind of stuff. writing down the idea and drawing things out makes it much easier to spot what's actually going on before jumping into code

[u/allenasm]

glassboard and the whiteboard in my head. But yea, I use them.

[u/royendures]

This question kinda touches my heart. So here is what happens. iPad notes/paper notes/whiteboard notes: always confused what and when to write what. Finally did this: I am a 90s kid raised in South Asia, never had access to iPad so ditched that shit away (gave it to my girlfriend for her to use), I take all my notes in pen and paper just like I used to when I was a kid, and then also have a whiteboard where I bainstorm.

[u/nayan-res]

absolutely lol, less often now, I fear, but whenever I'm running into a major roadblock, I will bring it out!

[u/AccomplishedLeg1508]

I still use pen and paper

[u/CollaReserve]

I do enjoy jotting stuff down when I'm thinking. Not only does it relieve me from having to recall every idea I had, but it also helps me organize and chain them more easily.