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[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago

I literally have no idea what this picture means, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

[-] Corbin@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

The typical holder of a four-year degree from a decent university, whether it's in "computer science", "datalogy", "data science", or "informatics", learns about 3-5 programming languages at an introductory level and knows about programs, algorithms, data structures, and software engineering. Degrees usually require a bit of discrete maths too: sets, graphs, groups, and basic number theory. They do not necessarily know about computability theory: models & limits of computation; information theory: thresholds, tolerances, entropy, compression, machine learning; foundations for graphics, parsing, cryptography, or other essentials for the modern desktop.

For a taste of the difference, consider English WP's take on computability vs my recent rewrite of the esoteric-languages page, computable. Or compare WP's page on Conway's law to the nLab page which I wrote on Conway's law; it's kind of jaw-dropping that WP has the wrong quote for the law itself and gets the consequences wrong.

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I meant the guy in the picture, but thanks anyway

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