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Re:Ask HN: Is the world suffering from shallow knowledge? by paulpauper on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:20PM (#32219937)
Except perhaps theoretical physics and maybe pure math. You have to pretty much know everything of equal depth to make progress in those domains. You cannot specialize, you have to know it all.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the world suffering from shallow knowledge? by jlokier on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:42PM (#32220028)
I've heard the opposite: Pure math conferences described as places where the attendees struggle to talk in depth about their work with other random attendees, because everyone's working in different, deeply specialised subfields of math.
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