On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:46 +0900, Todd Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Eleanor McHugh
> <eleanor / games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> > On 17 Nov 2009, at 19:55, Gregory Brown wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale / gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> When I was a young lad, it used to be that young programmers took a
> >>> semester long course on numerical analysis, which started with, and
> >>> continuously came back to dealing with the properties of floating
> >>> point numbers.
> >>>
> >>> I guess that doesn't happen much anymore.
> >>
> >> I took numerical analysis, but ironically, only after dropping my CS
> >> major and going for a math major.
> >> Also, I'll content that abstract algebra was about the best course
> >> I've taken for helping the way I think about programming.
> >>
> >> Too bad the CS students are all too busy trying to get their Java/C++
> >> projects to compile :)
> >
> > Never hire a computer scientist if you can get a maths, physics or philosophy grad instead ;)
> 
> Don't want to hijack (these are all good qualities by the way, but
> with a sardonic tone :)
> 
> Maths grad: F equals MA if the axioms are founded
> Phys grad: F does in "fact" equal MA no matter what
> Philosophy grad: F equals MA only when it must
> Engineering grad: F sometimes equals MA, but that's not the crux of the issue
> 

Cultural studies graduate: Bourgeois hegemony constructs F as an
arbitrary signifier of MA.

I'll get my coat.

Rosie