[anon291]

I've been in compiler engineering now for almost a decade. No grad school, just moved into the field and did a lot of random projects for my own entertainment (various compilers for toy languages, etc). It takes a particular type of person who cares about things like correctness. It is a very bizarre subsection of people with an improbably high number of transgender people and an equally high number of rad trad Catholics.

Which is to say that all it takes is an interest in compilers. That alone will set you apart. There's basically no one in the hiring pipeline despite the tech layoffs. I'm constantly getting recruiting ads. Current areas of interest are AI (duh) but also early-stage quantum compute companies and fully-homomorphic encryption startups. In general, you will make it farther in computer science the more niche and hard you go.

[vatsachak]

Rad trad Catholics makes sense because Catholic theology involves a lot of logic

[1718627440]

True, the scholastics were an effort to derive theology from philosophy and logic and are how Asian and Greek philosophy and culture became part of the Western world, which then evolved into Western logic, Math and Philosophy.

The cultural importance of education in Jewry, the preservation of that in Christianity and that Christians can never take any understanding of something for granted and always need to question everything, because the Universe (being created by God) will always be more complex than any current knowledge of it, is the origin of the Western concept of Empirism and formalized (Natural-)Science, even if a lot of modern Atheists like to sweep that under the rack.

A lot of early and also late scientists researched as a part to understand the world their God created, meaning they understood it as a approach to worship God.