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Reddit r/MachineLearningAugust 29, 2026

Do you use a whiteboard when thinking? [D]

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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 šŸ˜… 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