> You can get a PhD in some disciplines without ever learning what the field is for. Me right here
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That’s part of why I did a ton of logic. I was trying to figure out what math is and no one would tell me. Logic isn’t the answer but it was the closest thing I could find at the time.
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The first time I taught priority queue structures I did it the way that made sense to me, showing an array kept in sorted order with linear-time insertion first, and then going to better structures. Huge mistake; that was the only priority queue most students remembered at all.
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Yes, it’s a feeling for the emotional texture of the “background”, the “water”, etc. What Dreyfus/Heidegger calls the reason something becomes “available” in the first place
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Often academics are also not told what all the different fields and subfields even are before they pick one to specialize in. Maybe a big "this is the state of academia" chart showing how the fields connect & what they do in the lobby of the university faculty building?
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