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Re: Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

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Post by Raphaellll » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

niklasd wrote: post #50

resiros wrote: post #14

I think most interesting computer science fields are actually application of CS in other domains. Science changed a lot in the last decades, moving from a genius in a room looking at the data and coming up with grand theory to have vast amounts of data that no single human can make sense of. The work of the computer scientist is to quickly understand problems from various fields then solve it using tailor-made algori…

Yes! I studied law before CS and now I learn all these algorithms which deal with questions about how to do something efficiently – and these algorithms are unkown by all these people thinking about important questions in this field. And I think this also applies to other fields. I gave the book "Algorithms To Live By" (which is basically an overview of CS algorithms) to a medicine student and he was immediately insp…

In Germany computer science is called 'Informatik'. I think this is a better name for what we are doing. It is the science of information and how to efficiently store, process and transform it. The computer is just a tool for it but the methods and algorithms can also be applied in smaller scale and even analog in different areas.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

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Post by lajarre » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 9:43 AM UTC

Dowwie wrote: post #81

Computational law. See: http://logic.stanford.edu/complaw/complaw.html

About formalisation of laws in code (read: "write down laws as code"), I wonder how far this can go (eg. in a 10 or 20-years timespan). Any idea what are the most suitable parts of law (notably public) where to apply this principle? And how far can companies/startups go without the help of governments in this venture?

Another note on "smart contracts" in the first sense, or as I would put it, trusted computation as way of executing multi-party agreements. This approach already in application in electronic markets for example, and public blockchains seem to be a way to bring this to the masses. But I think it's still hard to say how this can interplay with "wet" decisions (involving a judge or an arbitrator). That's probably one of the interesting questions in this domain.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

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Post by skfist » Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 8:31 PM UTC

corpMaverick wrote: post #143

therealmarv wrote: post #32

Not so much science in this list, more personal and practical view: As a web developer: WebAssembly As a DevOp: Kubernetes As a backend engineer: headless (CMS) API systems like Strapi or Wagtail

"Drive mobile and Javascript front ends from wagtail's API" What is the meaning of headless anyway ?

It's essentially a back-end only content management system that makes content accessible via a RESTful API.

According to wikipedia, the term "headless" comes from the concept of chopping the "head" (the front-end, i.e. the website) off the "body" (the back-end, i.e. the content repository).