Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 21 Dec 2024 20:32:30 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <057f7ff0-2fda-0431-2ef8-e860a4772b69@example.net> <3a439b82-71cc-6aff-65dd-630c0707ff3f@example.net> <0d5d463f-af08-46aa-97e3-ef251ba64cc4@example.net> <451210c3-9b3d-91f1-be43-d06211f3b30f@example.net> <812b41ff-53e1-48d3-8088-d186fa65d90a@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3/YKY/On/BSuu37iHIZZagAWnWKTbx8Bo/YJDXk9TkhWpY4ZaD Cancel-Lock: sha1:9Ajo8D+CGESDEV/xQE03I9QO6V0= sha256:qsMoTHOxVZ4Fgie3sTYbxVZxndMkxtC43f567WQeqxg= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62857 On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:23:39 +0100, D wrote: > I also thought about it at university but came to the conclusion that my > math skills were not strong enough. But, I would have been too early for > the current AI boom anyway. AI can fall under the cognitive science umbrella but it isn't the whole discipline. My degree is in psychology which always needed some explanation. It was experimental psychology heavily influenced by Skinnerian behaviorism. I know a lot about the brain structure of a white rat but you didn't ask the rats what they were thinking. I don't know squat about the 'Psychology Today' type of crap. The first two year's curriculum was the same for all programs so I had good grounding in physics, chemistry, math, and programming, if FORTRAN can be considered programming. After that there was a good deal of latitude. For example one of my electives was differential equations since I thought it might be useful but it wasn't a requirement. At the time the degree was as useful as one in modern drama unless you wanted to pursue an academic career but I found gainful employment. Then as now unless you were a classical civil or electrical engineer you had to figure stuff out on the fly as it happened. Eventually programming and rat running converged.