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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Nov 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Megan McArdle

      1/ good thread (I'm RTing something the middle of it; scroll up & down) It's a bit of special pleading, bc I'm also one of these high-intelligence / high-conscientiousness / low-agreeableness people (OCEAN), but I think it's true that a lot of good comes from that psychographichttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1460224977098231819 …

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      To be clear: I went on to almost flunk out of Penn before once again getting religion, improving my GPA, and ending up as a largely functional adult who meets deadlines. Admitting kids with high SATs and low GPAs is a high-risk strategy ... but schools should take more such risks
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Nov 2021

      2/ now, that said, I tend to think that the universities - as currently constituted - are poison / bad / should be plowed into the ground in a way that would make Henry VIII (author of the dissolution of the monasteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries … ) pause and say "...really?"

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Nov 2021

      3/ so I'm not sure if high-g / low-agreeable folks should be encouraged to go the university path, or if the universities excluding these sorts of people is Good, Actually c.f. Thiel Fellowship

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Nov 2021

      4/ I went to an Ivy league college, double majored in CS and History and ... it was a miserable portion of my life, and I'm not sure it was worth the time spent, even if the tuition was free (and it wasn't) if I had to do it over again in 2021 >>>

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Nov 2021

      5/ I'd - do a 6 month code academy (which might better prepare me for work than 4 years of Cornell) - read widely afterwards (as I in fact did / do ) I hear friends and relatives talk about sending their kids to college and it sounds like madness to me.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Nov 2021

      6/ yeah, CS was 100% theoretical when I was at Cornell ; zero coding classes ; it was assumed we'd just pick it up by osmosis (which we had to - sink or swim, baby) 10% of that theory I use a lot ; 90% was just professors justifying their research areas by "teaching" undergrads

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        1. Dedicating Ruckus‏ @ded_ruckus 15 Nov 2021
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          I was admittedly exceptional, but I went through an entire undergrad program in CS and learned not a single new thing it wasn't a *bad* program, but it was absolutely possible for a hobbyist to have duplicated it on his own during high school

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        1. Orbital Snark Platform‏ @MoonstruckTwolf 15 Nov 2021
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          Otoh the saoftware ecosystem would be much improved if more devs had actually learned/retained the theory from data structure and algo, even though you can certainly muddle through without that stuff

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        1. José Camões Silva‏ @josecamoessilva 15 Nov 2021
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          10% is pretty high; most STEM graduates probably use less than 5%, if that; but the point of U education is those 5% are different from person to person and at different stages of a person's career. (And foundations help in the background without people noticing them.) YMMV, ofc.

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        1. Corn Woman  🌽‏ @WomanCorn 15 Nov 2021
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          This tempts me to make a YouTube series teaching autodidacts the CS concepts they need to pass interviews. (Big O, the Os for the dozen most popular algorithms. That's about it, I think.)

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