Re:Being OK with not being extraordinary
by phkahler on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:51AM
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>> but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it.
How do they justify that? ML is not IMHO the same thing, but maybe times are changing?
Re:Being OK with not being extraordinary
by gloatyegret on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:44AM
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I've given up trying to understand. The school focuses heavily on software development, and they don't seem willing to change the curriculum too drastically to make room for a good data science track. But they want to have one anyway...
I wondered if my degree was an exception.
> The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes you individually extraordinary is that the two skills are not correlated.
I don't know if "almost all CS people" come from better schools than mine, but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. Having good statistics skills, and not just good knowledge of some machine learning frameworks, is probably rarer than you think.