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by PaulHoule 209 days ago
I am looking out my window at a new Computing and Information Science building

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115500560220694978

and they merged the Computer Science, Information Science and Data Science programs into one big department that enrolls 2000+ students

https://milestones.cis.cornell.edu/

So it is definitely something a lot of people are going into and a person who doesn't want to face a bubble pop might consider something else. One good thing at Cornell is that we have a data science minor that anybody can take. I went to a talk by an English professor for instance who applies quantitative methods and data visualization to literary criticism.

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Other academics think it's bipolar (the 6-7 version of FOMO really) that provides value

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/DarkBrightness.pdf

I've seen others argue for schizotypy using the same biographical examples rotfl.

My working slogan now is "Schizotypes transmute coffee to coin (value)."

The flip side: (functioning) Schizotypes (adjoining academia) have lost their obsession with magic, AND self-diagnosed this loss with depression/anxiety/senescence etc. it's more subtle imho, but CS is a confounding factor* (muddling the pipeline between "dopamine" and "coin")

As to the below.. it's why I try to keep my credibility inscrutable on this site :)

*Used to be Math if you follow the Erdos quip and understand theorems as a long-now stand-in for "Coin"