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whoa, SFA on the front page of HN. two worlds of mine colliding. this organization is part of the center for the study of southern culture. a humanities-based
by greenie_beans 3y ago
whoa, SFA on the front page of HN. two worlds of mine colliding.
this organization is part of the center for the study of southern culture. a humanities-based academic discipline that a lot of tech folks might think is worthless.
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- panzagl 3y agoTech people do not like the humanities because the problems are too hard.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoWhy is it that I feel they will attempt to with AI and it will result in a figurative agnostic holy war?
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoRemembering the words of an English Lit professor when someone in the class asked why we had to take "yet another required humanities class." "Because most of you will become engineers. And as engineers, you need to understand that not all problems can be solved."
- AlbertCory 3y ago> not all problems can be solved all the commenters on the Detroit land-tax article need to understand this. There is no magic bullet that will solve that particular problem, no matter how high up the abstraction ladder you go.
- pixl97 3y agoI wouldn't say they are too hard, there are any number of physics problems that are 'too hard' in the sense they would burn all the matter in the visible universe to answer. I would say they are hard because they are not falsifiable.
- Kye 3y agoBringing the light of southern cuisine and culture to the good people of Silicon Valley.
- pjot 3y agoHotty Toddy!
- greenie_beans 3y agogo rebs!
- selimthegrim 3y agoRoll Wave.
- breakbread 3y agoI was recently back in Oxford and wound up chatting over beers with someone who worked with SFA. Despite living there for 8 years, I’d never heard of it before.