On 05/14/2014 06:22 PM, Jeff W wrote:
I have a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering and work at a Tier I research university...
You have lots of knowledge in a narrow specialty.
and I firmly
believe that using a piece of software - even a piece of open source
software - shouldn't require either of those things.
I think that might depend on the software ... There are statistical
analysis packages out there that most certainly require extensive
education in statistics to be used with any degree of correctness.
I bet if someone handed each of us software for designing a microchip,
you could sit right down and get to work, while I'd still trying to
figure how to get started.
I've looked at some dedicated software for producing HDR images. They
ALL require a very good knowledge of the theory and algorithms involved.
The smartphone/tablet/P&S camera crowd expect their software to do
*everything* for them, even guide them in taking each component shot so
it already starts out aligned to a great extent. They not only don't
know a thing about how it happens, they don't WANT to know and would
only whine about all that extra stuff they don't need. The principle of
"Make it Just Work" in action.
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