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0 pointsgolergka8y ago0 comments

Software engineers (myself included) love thinking that they so smart that they follow other fields up to the latest research.

(It doesn't mean that we're necessarily wrong though).

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trentmb8y ago· 1 in thread

Its not limited to software engineers. Theres no shortage of blowhards that conflate knowing and understanding.

sinemetu118y ago

Yep - illusion of explanatory depth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062901/

dekhn8y ago

My background is in biology (PhD, Biophysics) but I do software engineering. Few SWEs who follow biology have any clue or understanding, and easily get fooled by bio papers.

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