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- From: wells@cdsmn.mn.org (Rich Wells)
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:57:00 GMT
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- Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo (kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com) wrote:
- :
- : IMHO, there is probably no better background for SE than physics. Why?
- : Problem solving. Experimental techniques. Basic understanding of the
- : strangeness of the universe. All useful.
-
- Agreed. (Though I think that chemistry is just as good a
- background (:-).) My main beef is the almost complete
- inability for "computer scientists" to set up a controlled
- experiment, which is a very handy skill for debugging.
-
- Another example: almost any article in almost any journal or
- magazine concerning benchmarks. They tend to be a lesson
- in the futility of comparing apples and oranges in some
- quantifiable way, with a nearly complete lack of controls.
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- Richard Wells wells@cdsmn.mn.org or ...!tcnet!cdsmn!wells
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