Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:13:21 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

On 2024-12-23, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

It seems the psychology education in the 60s where on to something!
They created the best technological people in a generation, so a la
carte seems to be very beneficial for innovation and following ones
natural talents and interests.

 
At UC Santa Barbara, there is (was?) a "Department of Creative Studies".
The annual course catalog always just contains a notice that "The
Curriculum had not been finalized at the time of publication". It is
really an "invitation only Graduate school for undergraduates",
effectively by invitation only. My stepdaughter Birgitte was invited,
and put together a series of mathematics programs. She said that no
class had more than a dozen students, most had only half that many. And
none of them were "regular Americans". The other guy in her math
seminars was Iranian.
 
But these are probably fading away these days.

Unfortunately at least in the US 'liberal arts' has suffered the same
debasement as 'liberal' itself. Polymaths have given way to experts who
are lost outside of their narrow specializations.