Planning on learning something critical to my academic happiness...

[alexr_rwx]

One of these years -- one of these years, I'm probably going to learn that the whole social-sciences-y side of computer science is a lot more interesting in the abstract than in practice. In practice, classes like "HCI" or "Educational Technolgy" or even the cog-sci classes... just end up pissing me off.

It's not that it's "interdisciplinary" between AI and philosophy and psychology... it's that it's at the tipping point of interesting-ness between all of these and it ends up sounding like noise. To me, anyway.

Let's just go write some code or open up some brains or something.

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Re: learning smoothies!

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Most things are probably interesting, given a good teacher. Or at least that goes a long way!

Once, I had an upsetting HCI class, with our friend Sean schizobovine suffering alongside -- but it wasn't nearly so upsetting when a very good teacher (Mr. Dr. Jeff Pierce (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/jspierce/)) talked about usability issues in our "using AIs to build programs your mom would use" class.

(also: and it might turn out that disciplines come out of interdisciplines...)