2 Oct
2011
2 Oct
'11
10:43 a.m.
Ted Nelson, in his classic Computer Lib/Dream
Machines (1974):
'Swarthmore left me with an exaggerated notion of the extent to which
ideas are valued in the academic world; it took two graduate schools to
clear this up. After that, as far as I was concerned, Ph.D. stood for
Poophead.'
Ted is not always thoroughly in touch with academia.
BS is BullShit
This doesn't work in the UK, we call that degree a 'BSc'. Mind you, I
have a BA (and MA) in 'Physics and theoretical physics'... I am still
tring to work out why that's an 'art'...
MS is More of the Same
I heard it as 'more Sh*t'
PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper
Are you (and others) claiming a strong negative correlation between
having academic qualifcations and being clueful? My experience suggests
there's almost no correlation at all, if there is , it's slightly
positive. But I really don't think that having a certain piece of paper
should be used as a criterion for selecting somebody for a job.
Several of my degrees have had unexpected very
powerful impact on
employment in ways that I had never intended when I was in college.
I see....
I learnt a lot of things when getting my palindromic initials. Not to do
with particle physics eitehr (the group I was working in). Things like
how to strip down and rebuild a Canon CX printer. How to overhual a line
printer. How to design with ECL. How to get high-speed op-amps not to
turn into oscillators. How to fix SMPSUs. Etc...
Much of which has been very useful in keeping my classics going.
-tony