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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by pelasaco on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:13AM (#29118107)
I still remember an IT director that I met @ Bank of Boston that said us: "To use google is for lazy people". 2003, I believe.
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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by bennyp101 on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:19AM (#29118158)
And now it's more about your "Google-Fu" and do you know how to search properly to find the result you need!

I wonder what things we consider "lazy" at the moment, will become the standard in 20 years

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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by pelasaco on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:30AM (#29118240)
Now the Movie Wall-E[1] came to my mind, where humans couldn't even walk and all the job was done by robots.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E

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