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It is quite surprising that this article not related to CS made up to top news in hacker news. There must be a lot of non-CS engineers here.
by totorovirus 7y ago
It is quite surprising that this article not related to CS made up to top news in hacker news. There must be a lot of non-CS engineers here.
- creatornator 7y agoPID is very related to CS, especially in the domain of digital signal processing. And yup, I would agree that there are a lot of non-CS engineers here, we are pretty common :)
- totorovirus 7y agoI learned this in control systems in electrical engineering course. Maybe graduate courses do have PID for CS majors, but haven't seen them yet
- jbn 7y agoany large-ish system is going to have admission control and stability issues, better design those than leave them to chance...
- rbrtdrmpc- 7y agoCS engineer here, i had at least 3 exams about control theory (quite the standard here in Italy).
- jbn 7y agoThat's odd. To me control theory is really an EE topic (granted EE and CS are often part of the same department). I did EECS (and did some control theory as part of the mandatory subjects of study) and it feels like CS/SE people usually have no idea that control theory even exists..
- no-s 7y agoI bumped this because it's an underappreciated topic in CS. I never really had any formal education but PID and MPC have been in my bag of systems hacks for decades now. I wish I had more lives to expend in enjoyment of the pursuit of control theory. Frankly computing is starting to really get interesting again, I feel like it's 1979 redux.