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This is a silly, silly attempt to knock down a point that should be self-evident. Success in life isn't a formal proof. Exercising every day, keeping your wei
by slumdev 7y ago
This is a silly, silly attempt to knock down a point that should be self-evident. Success in life isn't a formal proof.
Exercising every day, keeping your weight down, eating a Mediterranean diet, not smoking, having healthy relationships, and sleeping eight hours a night do not guarantee that you'll live to reach retirement age.
However, they drastically increase your odds.
- ahuth 7y agoIt's not that silly. Just making the point that I've met plenty of people without degrees who are absolutely great engineers. And my company somehow comes up with plenty of badly engineered systems, despite being full of people with CS degrees. Is it possible that there's some sort of cognitive bias going on with your and mine strong, opposing feelings on this subject?
- slumdev 7y agoI've met people with CS master's degrees who seemed completely useless. My cognitive bias is that generalizing is more useful than focusing on exceptions. Studying computer science at a 4-year institution is more likely to produce competent programmers.
- i_haz_rabies 7y agoSince we're being pedantic: analogies aren't reality. Saying that a healthy lifestyle could improve your longevity doesn't in any way support the argument that a CS degree makes one more likely to understand big O.
- slumdev 7y ago> the argument that a CS degree makes one more likely to understand big O This is 101-level content at most institutions. If you manage to graduate without understanding it, you are a magician or some kind of con man savant.
- i_haz_rabies 7y agoI'm not saying you're wrong.