Music majors
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I had a couple of music majors who worked for me in scientific programming. They were by far the best I had even better than the mathematicians. I think their ability to recognize patterns and organize helped a great deal
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I had a couple of music majors who worked for me in scientific programming. They were by far the best I had even better than the mathematicians. I think their ability to recognize patterns and organize helped a great deal
Interesting, I lived with and hung out with a long music majors during University and they could hardly use a computer. Though it was a conservatory, so they took almost no other classes.
Robert Valska wrote:
I think their ability to recognize patterns and organize helped a great deal
Maybe it's their ability to memorize things other people wrote for reuse later. I just use copy & paste for that.
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I had a couple of music majors who worked for me in scientific programming. They were by far the best I had even better than the mathematicians. I think their ability to recognize patterns and organize helped a great deal
There appears to be a strong correlation of skills between logicians, linguists, mathematicians and musicians. Many of the devs I worked with play musical instruments - and pretty well, too. /ravi
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There appears to be a strong correlation of skills between logicians, linguists, mathematicians and musicians. Many of the devs I worked with play musical instruments - and pretty well, too. /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
appears to be a strong correlation of skills between logicians, linguists, mathematicians and musicians
I agree. I've never really took any formal lessons in learning to play the piano, and a few years back I took it up to learn by myself and just hear what my children's piano teacher was telling them. I'm not great at it, but I find myself getting better and better with practice. Nice and relaxing hobby as far as I'm concerned.
""Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
appears to be a strong correlation of skills between logicians, linguists, mathematicians and musicians
I agree. I've never really took any formal lessons in learning to play the piano, and a few years back I took it up to learn by myself and just hear what my children's piano teacher was telling them. I'm not great at it, but I find myself getting better and better with practice. Nice and relaxing hobby as far as I'm concerned.
""Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Oh cool! I've been wanting to try out a guitar, just limited on a certain resource called time :sigh:
""Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Oh cool! I've been wanting to try out a guitar, just limited on a certain resource called time :sigh:
""Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
As a former rocker and never-say-die music lover, I can honestly say that there is no single instrument better suited to naive experimentation than the guitar. My bro bought one when I was 12 and I picked it up and started playing it. Not that I'm some kind of multi-talented polymath, but it took only a month to get something recognisable as a tune out of it. It's more down to the fact that it is pretty trivial to jam on something like Nirvana or Foghat and have some fun, and produce something listenable. And that low barrier to entry is the secret of the guitar's phenomenal success, like soccer in Brazil or drinking in Ireland. Give it a lash.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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I had a couple of music majors who worked for me in scientific programming. They were by far the best I had even better than the mathematicians. I think their ability to recognize patterns and organize helped a great deal
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Interesting, I lived with and hung out with a long music majors during University and they could hardly use a computer. Though it was a conservatory, so they took almost no other classes.
Robert Valska wrote:
I think their ability to recognize patterns and organize helped a great deal
Maybe it's their ability to memorize things other people wrote for reuse later. I just use copy & paste for that.
Have to rememberthat I am 75+ and the programming was all done using punch cards and 1 turn around a day in FORTRAN
