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This wired article is amazing! “a lot of physicists are better mathematicians than mathematicians. They also teach coding well. They’re better computer scientists than most computer scientists.” (They’re also better statisticians than statisticians.)https://wired.trib.al/IvWQkYM 

This made me think of this question and its top answer that stuck in my head once: Imposter syndrome but for entire subjects. Everybody thinks physics is better than their subject!https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/26918/is-there-a-name-for-the-inverse-of-the-impostor-syndrome/26945 …

Physics probably *was* better than their subject... but look at it now. There's a lot of great stuff going on, but fundamental physics is stuck, so many resort to grabbing headlines with silly hype.https://aeon.co/essays/post-empirical-science-is-an-oxymoron-and-it-is-dangerous …