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11 votes
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What will "classically trained" look like for computer science and digital literacy??
This might be a weird framing but it's been bugging me for a few days. Many fields have a concept of classical training -- this is most common in music but applies in the humanities and many other...
This might be a weird framing but it's been bugging me for a few days. Many fields have a concept of classical training -- this is most common in music but applies in the humanities and many other areas. For example I do a lot of CAD work for my job, but I received what I would consider a "classical education" in design...I learned to draft by hand and physically model before I was ever allowed to work digitally. I got a lot of value out of this approach and it still informs the way I work today.
A lot of people view computers and technology as modern and almost anti-classical, but as the tech industry matures and the internet moves from something shiny and new to something foundational to our society, what will the new classicism look like?
Thanks for reading my question.
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RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language
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"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying
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What's an achievable technological, scientific, or computational breakthrough that you're really looking forward in the next fifteen years?
Title! Anything goes, both minor and major developments, as long as they can conceivably happen in the next 15 years.
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Why this computer scientist says all cryptocurrency should “die in a fire”
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Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously
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Who is behind QAnon? Linguistic detectives find fingerprints
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills
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Folding@Home ARM client now available
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Against scale: Provocations and resistances to scale thinking
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The techlash has come to Stanford
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The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers: One PlayStation can play a game, but 100 PlayStations can peer into the secrets of the universe
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The architect of modern algorithms
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New research finds that user affiliations on Reddit can be used to predict which subreddits will turn so toxic they eventually get banned
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Tech luminaries we lost in 2018
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The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
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How computers parse the ambiguity of everyday language
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Arm-based supercomputer prototype to be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories by DOE
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Nvidia’s mini supercomputer is the fastest single computer humanity has built
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Can the USA overtake China in the supercomputer race with her 200 petaflops Summit?
3 votes