[barbudorojo]

There is a tension to use your time in the best way. Recently someone asked in reddit Haskell what's the best language to learn to obtain some statistics and finance, my answer was R. Computer Science should be related to some field in which you are an expert or know about. One extreme side of the coin is being too pragmatic the other extreme is wasting your time in the hippies things.

The difficulty is putting the real amount of time in research and in getting the tools that will me your goal became a reality, that's a touch problem.