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Re:Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel dep... by whoknew1122 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @09:43AM (#30514714)
Sure universities train people how to think. But they're in the liberal arts, which is why OP finds some many SWEs with music majors. STEM is very transactional. Liberal Arts is more about teaching you how to think and communicate.

The problem is too many tech bros have been pissing on liberal arts for 30 years. And now people are looking around and saying 'we have too many tech bros'.

My college years were spent reading various viewpoints, bringing them together, and synthesizing them into a coherent narrative. This turns out to be very helpful when it comes to solving problems and analyzing security incidents. I've found it more useful than that semester of C+ the new hires took for their CompSci degree.

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Re:Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel dep... by wheelinsupial on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @07:53PM (#30522207)
> STEM is very transactional. Liberal Arts is more about teaching you how to think and communicate.

Are you able to elaborate on what you mean by these statements? What does being able to think mean and how would one be able to demonstrate that?

Do you think the only way to learn this is in the liberal arts?

> too many tech bros have been pissing on liberal arts for 30 years.

Your comment seems to be pissing on STEM. Am I completely misreading what you're saying? STEM and the vocational or mechanical arts have been pissed on by the liberal arts for a lot longer than the last 30 years.

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