> An amount that could easily be learned in a (good) 4-year undergraduate program. i think any kind of undergrad program can only ever scratch the surface of s

> An amount that could easily be learned in a (good) 4-year undergraduate program. i think any kind of undergrad program can only ever scratch the surface of some of these topics. people spend decades becoming proficient in just a single vertical (microchip architecture, distributed systems, asics/fpgas, signal processing, gpu shaders, network engineering, jit compilers, language design, color spaces, database engines, etc). sure, it's all "just" CS/EE :D look at how much knowledge/skill was required to make an even faster fizbuzz: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29031488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29031488