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Ok, I should quantify it as "some of world's Top 10 engineering universities" then. YMMV as you say; imagine you are required to read 100 papers a term in a sin
by bitL 9y ago
Ok, I should quantify it as "some of world's Top 10 engineering universities" then. YMMV as you say; imagine you are required to read 100 papers a term in a single subject in CS these days. Moreover, you should be almost assured that most of the facts you learn will be/are already obsolete due to crazy pace CS is having in some areas. I am not aware of math/physics having such a crazy pace, but I might be ignorant there.
- catnaroek 9y agoExcept for the “borderline mathematics” parts of computer science (algorithms, PL semantics, etc.), the scientific rigor in CS publications is much, much, much lower than in math or physics publications. Scientific progress is to be measured in terms of advances in human understanding, not in number of publications, our current “publish or perish” culture notwithstanding.
- bitL 9y agoAgain, if you want to coast, collect grade inflated Bs and Cs, you can do without much rigor. If you want As and are ambitious, you have to master both CS and related math. Publish or perish is terrible, I agree; if you focus only on super hard high risk problems that might advance humanity, you'll get kicked out of university in no time. And as a professor, 90% of your time will be spent on chasing grants.
- catnaroek 9y agoI am talking about scientific rigor, not grades. A more relevant question (at least to my interests) is “What tests does a scientific proposal have to pass to become an estabilshed scientific result?”