Sorry for the late reply, I rarely use this address anymore.
I had some inquiries about the phrase where I stated my preference for
candidates without formal degrees. My intention was not to discourage
or discriminate academics here, but lacking a formal degree myself,
I thought it might be a good
Being "guilty" of rather promoting the EE idea of course I have feelings
or thoughts about the subject: I'd think like with IT type of subjects,
the danger exists that the well founded and theoretically usually strong
(university) EE subjects should be guarded against mis-use somewhat, to
pre
On 5/4/2012 11:11 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
On 5/2/2012 10:47 PM, Ross Bencina wrote:
Hi All, (but especially Stefan and Al)
I'm wondering if I can draw you on what is it about
Electrical Engineering qualifications that is important
to these kind of jobs (I have some ideas, but not
On 5/2/2012 10:47 PM, Ross Bencina wrote:
Hi All, (but especially Stefan and Al)
I'm wondering if I can draw you on what is it about Electrical
Engineering qualifications that is important to these kind of jobs (I
have some ideas, but not the full picture, since I'm not an EE).
I was inte
I didn't have that experience, Michael. Having homework forced me to do
homework. I had a US Government teacher as a senior in high school that made me
think about how life works a bit, balanced by a math teacher in college that
nearly crushed my interest in math...pretty much everything I use c
On 5/3/12, Nigel Redmon wrote:
> Also, a formal education can lock you into a limiting mentality. For
> instance, we all know the limitations of linear interpolation, but some know
> it "too well".
>
> ;-)
Allow me to share my interpolator polynomial analytic transform tables
vis a vis desiginin
I'm a an algorithmic composer and contributor to Csound. I have no
academic qualification for this work. I was a music major in jazz
peformance for a year, but my B.A. is in comparative religion.
Nevertheless I profoundly believe that formal education can be
enormously beneficial. It all depends o
A couple of ideas...
First, note that "Given identical qualification" can imply that someone without
a degree might have gotten to the same level as someone with a degree by a lot
of digging and figuring on their own. Some call this getting one's "hands
dirty"—implying that you didn't just read
I think it's a hard question to articulate (especially if
you are an engineer, since we can't write).
I think Stefan & I have some of the same perspective.
An electrical engineering or similar education is usually
the starting point of an engineering career. During this
process, you hopefully
Hi All, (but especially Stefan and Al)
I'm wondering if I can draw you on what is it about Electrical
Engineering qualifications that is important to these kind of jobs (I
have some ideas, but not the full picture, since I'm not an EE).
I was interested to see in Stefan's recently posted job:
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