
With Jason Swett: when data structures, big-O notation and algorithms were completely useless...
Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits
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The Importance of Experiential Learning
Each person starts out knowing very little. And so as each person dies, a whole bunch of their knowledge goes with them. So all these things need to be like manually passed on from person to person. It's in a way unfortunate that we can't just load libraries into our brains the way we canload libraries into our programmers. Although maybe that's actually good. You know, there's the saying that science advances funeral by funeral.
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