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At the risk fanning a flame war between the value of having a degree vs. not, I think one of the big advantages of having a technical degree in the field of som
by physcab 16y ago
At the risk fanning a flame war between the value of having a degree vs. not, I think one of the big advantages of having a technical degree in the field of something you're applying for is having a lower value on the crackpot index[1] from the get-go.
Whether you're an expert or not is irrelevant. Its that statistically you're probably more likely to be humble about what you don't know, so that way you can go and hunt down the solution if you need to when those problem situations occur.
[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
- gaius 16y agoIt's not about the piece of paper, but about the theoretical background. You can't even have a conversation with someone about algorithms, performance tuning, optimization etc if they don't know Big-O for example. Incidentally that's why CS undergrads "waste" their time learning all the sorts, not 'cos you'll ever need to write one from scratch ever, it's just a good way to introduce ideas about time and space complexity.