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Oh man, what a shame all these people spent 20 years building tools in math, don't they know they could have been building advertising systems instead, and made
by mrguyorama 3y ago
Oh man, what a shame all these people spent 20 years building tools in math, don't they know they could have been building advertising systems instead, and made a few people enormously wealthy!
- pbronez 3y agoI think it actually runs the other way. Because Physics is in the doldrums, intelligent people trained in Physics show themselves out and start building those advertising systems. Personally I know many people who abandoned Physics to reinvent themselves as data scientists. Good for them that they were able to re-purpose their training; that doesn’t mean physics training is the best way to become a data scientist. My bias is that quantitative social science is a better route, although some of what it gains from focusing on people is often lost through less rigorous mathematics and software development requirements.