News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What it feels like to be the last gen to remember life before the internet. Parent comment

Re:What it feels like to be the last gen to remember life be... by caseysoftware on Sunday August 28, 2016 @02:03PM (#12377584)
Scott Adams - creator of Dilbert - was recently ridiculed for suggesting that someone could become an expert on a topic after an hour of talking with the brightest minds in that field. While "expert" needs to be defined, I don't think it's far fetched.

How many times have we had that conversation with someone who knows their topic backwards and forwards and after minutes, we have a deeper understanding of it than almost anyone around. Expand that out to an hour with a few key/relevant questions to frame the conversation and it is totally believable.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What it feels like to be the last gen to remember life be... by technofiend on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:07AM (#12379957)
I recently attended a lecture by Hadley Wickham on his latest tools built for R. It was both edifying and deeply saddening. I learned a great deal about R in a short time from (IMHO) one of the masters, and I realized that if Haldey is typical of a Rice University professor I should have challenged myself to get a better education than I did.
[ Parent | on HN ]