On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 02:05:35PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Magnificant elaboration. Thank you for this verbalization! > Indeed, a much better verbalization that I could ever come up with > during my thoughtful walks.
Thank you very much, Chris. As I proceed through my 60s, I've accepted there's no Nobel or Turing in my future. But I guess I'm learning I'm not bad at explaining and presenting. > There are times in computer science, where I'm ashamed of what > is considered a worthwhile topic... leaving me with confusion > in regards to what I once thought to be an interesting endeavour. I know what you mean, and I honestly think a lot of it relates to how young our field is. Every freshman taking intro Calculus and Newtonian mechanics is studying stuff that's been around for over 400 years. But the most natural time to date the beginning of CS is around '46 or '47, making our field just about 80 years old. We're not at a position where we have the equivalent distinctions of roles of scientists, engineers, and technicians. I love the fact that one day I can be working on proving that the ENIAC was Turing complete and the next day sorting through Cisco documentation to configure an old router and the next day experimenting with the Plan 9 real-time scheduler and a kernel driver. (Okay, there weren't all on consecutive days, but they were all in the last year.) And the years going by also help to remind me that whatever satisfies my intellectual curiosity is valid, no matter what journal reviewers or promotion committees might say. BLS ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf84d656c78bbda91-Mbb657d2e88ab0d2e8642cdd4 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
