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SoftMachine · 3312 days ago · link · · parent · post: Humanities research is groundbreaking, life-changing… and ignored
Exactly. We have a wealth of information available, but I can tell you, from the perspective of a CS major, it's hard to discern good info from bad at the beginning of your studies. I like to think of knowledge as connections between nodes of information. If you are unfamiliar with a subject, you have to skip around, adding 'unnecessary' nodes to your network of information and missing the important connections between those nodes. A good professor and curriculum helps weed out the unnecessary info and lets you focus on the important stuff.