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As a computer scientist who worked in a physics lab: a lot. Other sciences could desperately use the help of talented computer scientists. Unfortunately those o
by centimeter 6y ago
As a computer scientist who worked in a physics lab: a lot. Other sciences could desperately use the help of talented computer scientists. Unfortunately those other sciences are mostly mired in academia nonsense and don't pay well.
- westurner 6y ago"Applied CS" Computational science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_science Computational biology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology Computational thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking : > The characteristics that define computational thinking are decomposition, pattern recognition / data representation, generalization/abstraction, and algorithms. Additional skills useful for STEM fields: system administration / DevOps / DevSecOps, HPC: High Performance Computing (distributed systems, distributed algorithms, performance optimization; rewriting code that is designed to test unknown things with tests and for performance), research a graph of linked resources and reproducibly publish in LaTeX and/or computational notebooks such as Jupyter notebooks, dask-labextension, open source tool development (& sustainable funding) that lasts beyond one grant