His best post yet, IMO. Computer scientists/programmers have experience with dealing with complexity, and that experience could well be applied to other fields

His best post yet, IMO. Computer scientists/programmers have experience with dealing with complexity, and that experience could well be applied to other fields as well. As a side note, I wonder if with the complex mortgage backed securities which they say "are so complex no one understands them" if what happened was the people making these complex deals inadvertently created a one way function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function (Something from cryptography theory where a complex computation can be computed forwards easily but reversing the math is like trying to unscramble an egg.) A computer scientist would have been able to spot that kind of problem.