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Re:I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than... by foolinaround on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:31PM (#30749420)
> There’s no real opportunity in physics or math without essentially switching to software eventually.

In a real free-market scenario, would'nt those PhD programs be drastically reduced?

I suspect this is because this physics PhD program is providing an implicit signalling function, that the fellow out of this program is worth more than the ave college guy - doing the same programming job - because he proved himself on more complex study materials.

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Re:I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than... by booleandilemma on Monday March 21, 2022 @07:25AM (#30752731)
This is definitely how it’s interpreted. Especially when a lot of the people in the industry nowadays are clueless PMs who spent college going to frat parties and who can’t do anything in life besides be a PM (or account manager, business analyst, etc), whose first reaction is “oh wow, physics” and the deference begins from there.
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