The Future of Computer Science (2018)
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The Future of Computer Science (2018)
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#3I remain unconvinced, but maybe LLM's will provide progress without individual comprehension?
(at which point we should maybe be speaking of Applied Computation rather than Computer Science? then again, at systems institutions that Rubicon has already been crossed...)
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#4Anything that cannot be grasped by an individual, cannot be taught. This means the gains that are emergent, will eventually be lost.
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#5> A famous researcher once said that a scientist should not work more than 5-6 years in the same research area.
Who said this?
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#6> A famous researcher once said that a scientist should not work more than 5-6 years in the same research area. Who said this?
I first encountered similar advice when reading the slides of David Patterson’s talk “How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia” as an undergraduate in the late 2000s who was planning a career in computer science research:
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/BadCareer.pd...
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#7Note the downward trend in the number of new programming languages per decade. Probably because this field of CS has reached maturity stage and new greenfield projects are less in demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...
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#8This thesis seems to be limited to a narrow corner of computer science akin to Turing's work: what is computable, etc.
Lucky for us that's only a narrow corner I guess?
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#9Note the downward trend in the number of new programming languages per decade. Probably because this field of CS has reached maturity stage and new greenfield projects are less in demand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...
Those are only the "notable" languages. If we consider less than notable languages as well, we might get something like the languages on Rosetta Code [1]. Looking throught the history of that page, I see that about 10% of the current 834 languages were added in just the last 5 years. Which is much less suggestive of a downward trend.
[1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_languages_by_...
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#10Note the downward trend in the number of new programming languages per decade. Probably because this field of CS has reached maturity stage and new greenfield projects are less in demand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...
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