3 ms·
"The curve for faculty is a lot flatter than for students, especially in math and the hard sciences; you have to go pretty far down the list of colleges before
by henning 19y ago
"The curve for faculty is a lot flatter than for students, especially in math and the hard sciences; you have to go pretty far down the list of colleges before you stop finding smart professors in the math department."
I wish this would be repeated more often. I've implemented many interesting algorithms based on papers written by people at, like, Louisiana State University. Noname places.
- dfranke 19y agoIt's also interesting how many universities kick ass in little obscure research niches. I had never even heard of Chalmers until I learned Haskell.
- henning 19y agoI wouldn't have thought Glasgow even had a university much less one that produced a really nice implementation of a modern functional programming language.