Excellent article, by Blain Smith (@blainsmith), on the need for a broader education, especially for computer programmers:
https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/
Thanks to Sacha Chua (@sacha) for including this in her most recent weekly Emacs news post.
Edit: proper links for people mentioned.
@sacha @blainsmith Good example indeed.
I'm retired now but all during my research and teaching career, I found that the best programmers were those that had a broader background than just programming and also mathematicians (as maths is really philosophy 😉).
@ericsfraga @sacha @blainsmith I’d say that many, if not most, of us in #DigitalHumanities (necessarily) have such interdisciplinary backgrounds—but computing is, of course, dominated by increasingly narrow-minded engineering.
I’m going to reflect on computer science as a humanities discipline next week at #UndoneCS…
@mxp This sounds like an awesome conference! Will the talks be recorded to view later?
@blainsmith This would be a question for @undonecs, but since the talks from the previous edition are available (https://mediaserver.univ-nantes.fr/channels/#undone-computer-science-2024), I’d think so.
éric 🚲 🇪🇺 
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