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It sounds like you hold researchers in the highest regard and believe everyone should too.

• wfunction 10y ago
  > It sounds like you hold researchers in the highest regard and believe everyone should too. Nice strawman. Where did I ever generically talk about "researchers"? Are these people mentioned (Karp, Valiant, etc.) just merely "researchers" to you? You really think I have the same regard for (say) a random grad student as I do for someone like Karp? And you really think I don't have the same respect for the best people working on corporate/commercial technology (Musk, Page, etc. just as a couple of examples off the top of my head)? It seems like you really have low opinions of all researchers no matter how accomplished they are, in which case that would explain everything, but I certainly don't. Otherwise it's like you're actively trying to waste my time and miss my point...
  • gugagore 10y ago
    To be clearer, I should have included "these researchers". I don't have a low opinion of researchers.
• gravypod 10y ago
  There's a difference between a researcher and an expert. I'm a researcher and particularly I'm an undergrad assistant to people who do important things. EWD was an expert. I know a little about computer science and am still learning. EWD knew everything there was to know at that time and was teaching. That's what an expert is. The pinical of the field's knowladge accumulated into one person. You don't earn the title Expert from a degree. You don't earn it by any means from years of experiance. You earn the title Expert by consistantly blowing the minds of everyone else in your field and by consistantly pushing your field forward further then your peers.