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The closest thing to feeling like I had a genuine superpower came after I studied a bunch of pure mathematics – the (richly interconnected, actually conceptuall
by tw1010 9y ago
The closest thing to feeling like I had a genuine superpower came after I studied a bunch of pure mathematics – the (richly interconnected, actually conceptually easier to manipulate after you've grown accustomed to them) building blocks of applied mathematics – and was then able to dazzle people who had only been exposed to applied mathematics with genuinely new, and often beautiful, perspectives on things they thought they already understood the whole story of. Pure mathematics, like analysis and algebra, makes it all immensely more rich and personal.
- monaghanboy 9y agoI feel the same way. Intellectually it seems like it's been all downhill since leaving grad school :).
- aisync 9y agoDid you complete grad school all the way to a doctorate? I'm in grad school right now weighing the decisions to leave a year after a master's degree.
- monaghanboy 9y agoNo, I left a couple of years after my MS degree, while I was starting to do work on my dissertation. While I do think that CS isn't as intellectually satisfying as math, it's definitely more lucrative, so I have zero regrets.