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Startup founders are usually discussing consumer products which are by neccessity easy to comprehend. Research students usually delve into issues of high comple
by khawkins 14y ago
Startup founders are usually discussing consumer products which are by neccessity easy to comprehend. Research students usually delve into issues of high complexity for the task of progressing the state of the art. They don't often have to communicate the importance of their work to people like you.
- tmarthal 14y agoThe last picture in this article accurately describes what doing a PhD is all about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588727 Pushing the envelope of human knowledge, one pixel at a time.
- wellboy 14y agoYeah easy to comprehend in hindsight, obviously. Sorry didn't want to hate against PhD students, but I don't like the institution of a PhD. Most PhD thesises I have seen are just a waste of time of the PhD students. Less in science PhDs, more so in social studies, business...
- yid 14y ago> Most PhD thesises I have seen are just a waste of time of the PhD students I'm curious why you feel qualified to judge the quality of PhD theses, or whether they were worth the authors' time. There's obviously a gradient in quality, but your post is overly dismissive.