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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by golergka on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:59AM (#29121116)
I think it's fairly common, in different professional fields, to teach skills that would require expensive equipment.

Most of the practical lab skills you're taught for doing "wet" biology require quite an expensive lab, and doing computational biology often requires a much more expensive supercomputers.

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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by michaelt on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:55PM (#29122621)
To an extent.

But the MATLAB skills I honed in university have seen little direct use after graduating - because it's faster to teach myself to do whatever it is in Python than to get an employer to adopt MATLAB.

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