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		superconduct123 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again? That's funny, one of the best programmers I've ever know had a physics degree I think those type of people just have really good analytical thinking

porridgeraisin 8 months ago [–]

I'm a grad student and I help grade exam papers of mostly entry level ML related subjects. And boy, the aerospace and physics department folks are ahead of the curve by a significant amount. I guess four years of strong mathematics does that to you.

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