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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by fossuser on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:39PM (#26243939)
I don't mean to come across as overly harsh or partisan against liberal arts majors. I think the content is often interesting. I just think it should be taken along side a technical major too.

I do have a bias against overly flowery language that obscures meaning, and tend to find that more often comes from the less technical side of the academic spectrum: http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html

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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by musicale on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:41PM (#26243970)
I assume you haven't read many academic papers in CS? ;-)

That's a bit of a joke. Clarity is of course a primary virtue in all forms of academic writing, and one that is often ignored either unintentionally or in an attempt to impress one's reviewers and/or to signal one's membership in a particular tribe.

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