Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
by marcosdumay on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:12PM
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A physics or chemistry student is learning about empiricism on lab courses, and about how other scientists came-out with their advances. But more importantly, they are mostly studying science itself, not how use it to create practical stuff.
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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
by scott_s on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:37PM
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I don't disagree with your comment, and I don't think your comment disagrees with mine. I was agreeing with dahart that a computer science undergrad curriculum is mostly not about doing computer science, but then pointing that that is true for all sciences.
Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
by marcosdumay on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:28PM
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Most of the computer science curriculum is explicitly engineering. Even the courses we call theory are about how how to engineer better, more like what a mechanical engineer does when studying thermodynamics than what a physicist does when studying the same subject.
I do agree that none of them are doing science, but one is studying science itself, the other is studying a slightly different thing.