From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:39:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87shh8zh28.fsf@jane> References: <86a83x93tl.fsf@zoho.com> <871sp9my5m.fsf@jane> <86wp717e67.fsf@zoho.com> <86poclqx3p.fsf@zoho.com> <87k22s2xyi.fsf@jane> <898c8101-ca4d-48f6-8db1-1fa20b270ac0@default> <86shhgotzo.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501782020 18346 195.159.176.226 (3 Aug 2017 17:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 17:40:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 03 19:40:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ddK6Q-00042T-Co for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:40:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddK6W-0001VT-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50157) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddK66-0001VB-U9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddK64-0007SI-7P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:39:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:54669) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddK64-0007Om-0n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:39:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3D2E632F; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:39:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rPNSbq5mEQRD; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:39:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05FEBE6166; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:39:39 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <86shhgotzo.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113923 Archived-At: On 2017-07-29, at 04:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Drew Adams wrote: > >>> Well, in maths, theory is basically all >>> you've got;-). >> >> In theory, maybe, but not in practice. ;-) > > One would certainly hope so! > > I only did the introductory courses in math, > probably at a ridiculously low lever for some > people in this thread. And true enough, they > were 0% practice, just an exam at the end of > each course. But I always assumed this would > change the higher people got. Perhaps I was > wrong? Dunno. I did a PhD in maths about 7 years ago. Haven't seen much _practice_ during the courses, but of course later, during research, you have to actually try out/prove/make conjectures etc. Probably what you'd call "practice". > Computer courses were never like that, they had > both parts, with the practical parts often being > implementing or doing something with a concept, > data structure or whatever from the theory > part. > > Sometimes the practical parts were neatly > packeted but many times you'd spend hours and > days just getting the damn thing to work before > you could start "actual" work. > > Looking back y'all, it is amazing young people > could cope with this constant stress and > frustration. Straight French Foreign Legion! ;-) -- Marcin Borkowski