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> I do not know the specific background of Mr Lee, but the thing I always tell myself is that you can teach programming to a microbiologist, but not microbiolog
by samuel 5y ago
> I do not know the specific background of Mr Lee, but the thing I always tell myself is that you can teach programming to a microbiologist, but not microbiology to a programmer.
I don't know if microbiology is special in some sense, but I have witnessed several times during my career cases of programmers turned into domain experts(in Logistics for example).
Obviously you don't became an MD that way, if that was your point.
- throwaway2037 5y agoYes, Wall Street (high finance) also has many people (traders & quants & risk controllers) who do not have financial engineering degrees, yet deeply understand the field as practitioners. Some common "alternative" degrees: economics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, microbiology, computer science/engineering. The previous generation was even less specialised -- many had liberal arts degrees!