Re:A computer science study plan to become a software engineer
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:39PM
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I have a degree in math and physics. I used it exactly once, in one aspect on one job. It was down below 0.0something% - need one or three more zeroes...
... until I took a job in X-ray imaging. We were working on a surgical X-ray (C arm) that could pinch-hit as a CT machine. And suddenly everything was 3D coordinate transforms and fourier transforms, plus X-ray physics, up to my eyeballs.
The theory stuff isn't useful... until it is. And when it is, it helps to have it.
... until I took a job in X-ray imaging. We were working on a surgical X-ray (C arm) that could pinch-hit as a CT machine. And suddenly everything was 3D coordinate transforms and fourier transforms, plus X-ray physics, up to my eyeballs.
The theory stuff isn't useful... until it is. And when it is, it helps to have it.