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Does questioning what you're doing and why result in a better overall product? I would say yes.

Sep 15, 2017

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I've been in a mathematical philosophy course that was 50/50 stem/humanities and the difference was striking and very interesting

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the stem people were far more efficient at getting to the core of a matter and better at asking precise questions, but on the other hand

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the humanities people asked some of the more fuzzy questions that would never have occurred to the stems

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concrete example that happened: "what if we make this x > 1 [in this formalism that doesn't allow x to be 1 because it's a probability]"

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makes little sense to the informed mind, right? but also, questioning the formalism in the first place is important

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without the humanities people, the discussions would certainly have been less interesting and it'd have been a mostly math seminar

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without the stem people, it would've been mostly hot air

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so, bring these people together, neither is clearly superior and they have much to learn from each other

11:53 PM · Sep 15, 2017Twitter Web Client

Dr. Andrew / Aure Schrock

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Get no argument from me! Sounds like the course I teach at UCLA. Interdisciplinary, 1/3 discussion, 2/3 hands-on pair coding.

Dr. Andrew / Aure Schrock

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Always a pleasure to learn from my students, too - they have new insights on how to think about & present material each year :)