Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:23:39 +0100, D wrote:

I also thought about it at university but came to the conclusion that my
math skills were not strong enough. But, I would have been too early for
the current AI boom anyway.

AI can fall under the cognitive science umbrella but it isn't the whole
discipline. My degree is in psychology which always needed some
explanation. It was experimental psychology heavily influenced by
Skinnerian behaviorism. I know a lot about the brain structure of a white
rat but you didn't ask the rats what they were thinking. I don't know
squat about the 'Psychology Today' type of crap.

The first two year's curriculum was the same for all programs so I had
good grounding in physics, chemistry, math, and programming, if FORTRAN
can be considered programming. After that there was a good deal of
latitude. For example one of my electives was differential equations since
I thought it might be useful but it wasn't a requirement.

At the time the degree was as useful as one in modern drama unless you
wanted to pursue an academic career but I found gainful employment. Then
as now unless you were a classical civil or electrical engineer you had to
figure stuff out on the fly as it happened. Eventually programming and rat
running converged.