🚧 Under constuction!
“My knowledge is a collection of things I am able to learn, which happen to have already been useful to me in the past.”
Knowledge is not accrued by itself - Knowledge serves as a showcase of an individual’s ability to learn. Chances are, if someone already knows subjects well, they will be able to learn any subject they put their mind to.
I pride myself in my ability to ask intelligent questions, mine the information available to me - practically limitless in today’s world, - find the relevant data, think hard to make sure I understand, Satisfy myself that I have the full answer, and repeat.
I like to have the answers to the following questions:
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Why is something done a certain way?
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Everybody does it that way. Is that for essential or accidental reasons?
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What other ways are people doing it? Why? Why isn’t everyone else?
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What other ways can I think of, that would solve the problem? Will they work? Is anyone doing anything similar? If not, why not?
My main area of interest is computer science. I regularly read textbooks and academic papers, and have, at different points in time, had interest in the following areas:
| Topic | Favorite resource |
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| Compiler design | Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools. Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1986. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., USA. |
| Databases | A relational model of data for large shared data banks. E. F. Codd. 1970. Commun. ACM 13, 6 (June 1970), 377–387. |