| | | This is a problem with education today. Most people in education are narrow
in what they know and in what they believe. When I talk to students I encourage them to first go for breadth ..... and I ask science and tech students not to focus on just math and science, and I explain why. I push them into diverse areas. I was fortunate to have been forced to do physics, chem, math, programming, sociology, psychology ..... in my undergrad, and I consider myself lucky that I continued.
I never did get a chance to learn finance and economics formally (because I had to specialize in math and computing, and it took all my energy) but I somehow muddle through this and learn now.
When I was a grad student a secretary (my mom's age, and she treated me like her son) who made us coffee at the stat lab in the Uni asked me: " Do you think microcomputers will ever get to be like those supercomputers on this floor?". She was referring to computers like the CDCs Cyber 750 and the CRAY, at a time when Radioshack's computers were emerging. Being a grad student who used those supercomputers every night, I said "I simply cannot imagine that happening".
Time showed me how little I knew.
But you could say I learned something. I did not know it then, but the real brains behind Google was my AI teacher. He was talking about such things then, and his son did it. |
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