Re:I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion
by bigred100 on Saturday April 27, 2019 @02:22PM
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In USA (among the social group I grew up around), it seems like it’s mocked unless you’re also wealthy, in my opinion (eg the Starbucks barista who knows Latin). Even with eg Zuckerberg I think it’s mostly unknown that he has some knowledge of these things, or among many considered an eccentricity. Among very high level societal elites or extremely educated people perhaps it’s viewed differently (I would know nothing about this)
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Re:I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion
by luckylion on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:15AM
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Yeah, I've seen part of that on the web, but I never know how much of it is ironic.
It's very different in Europe, there may be some mocking, and we also don't create unlimited jobs for every graduate, but they'll most likely not end up doing minimum wage jobs, and most of them easily transition into working in the media, for the government, large corporations or foundations.