Post #2664756
2025-04-27 01:56 UTC
@jimbob@aus.social I’ve moved the opposite direction recently and believe that to truly succeed in an advanced field where the technology is leveraged you need to fully understand it.
If your field is technology based then that understanding should be nearly to the level of actual from-scratch implementation, not that you’d have the hours or finances to do it but the evaluation skills.
I recognize I am a far outlier in this opinion and most people do not want to learn masters degree+ level statistics.
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@Rycaut@mastodon.social 2025-05-05 05:43
@dotsie@mastodon.social @jimbob@aus.social an engineer I talked to this evening at a benefit for my son’s school (not a cs engineer - one who works in another field) told me about a class he took in grad school where they built an entire computer from the ground up to run on a 286 based chip. As a class on learning the deep systems of computing. This was in 2016. He found the class fantastic - they soldered their own circuits etc. and learned a lot.