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Hard disagree I’ll go out on a limb and say the majority of HN users at this point do not know the context and implications of the impact of Cantor - would pro
by AndrewKemendo 8mo ago
Hard disagree
I’ll go out on a limb and say the majority of HN users at this point do not know the context and implications of the impact of Cantor - would probably have only heard the name in the context of mathematics but no deeper
I’d go further and say the majority have not ever heard of the name Dedekind
- freehorse 8mo agoI would assume that at least cantors technique of diagonalisation should have found its way into some CS course that I assume a good part of the audience here has studied? Considering that’s what Turing used to prove the undecidability of the halting problem.
- AndrewKemendo 8mo agoHaving been active on this website for 14 years now … At this point I would venture to say The median hacker news commentator does not have aa computer science degree