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15072344 No.15072344 [Reply] [Original]

What's the most bullshit PhD. in Computer Science? My professor has one in human-computer interaction. Lol. Lmao, even.

>> No.15072353

>>15072344
seethe phdlet

>> No.15072359

>>15072344
Computer science is the PhD.
Human-computer interaction is a research specialization/interest.
Like, in math, you get a PhD in math, not a PhD in algebraic topology or whatever.

>> No.15072366

>>15072359
Okaaay...you still haven't answered my question.

>> No.15072371

>>15072366
Well, I stand corrected, btw. It does seem that there's actually such a thing as a PhD in human-computer interaction. Here's another contender for most bullshit compsci subdiscipline:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_computing
Yes, there are also PhDs in social computing, apparently.

>> No.15072414

>>15072371
they'll give you a phd in "being napoleon bonaparte" if you have enough money to spend on it

>> No.15073795

Theoretical computer science
Imagine being such a cuck that you spend your life teaching automata and complexity theory to code monkeys who only want to get a degree and don't give a shit about math.

>> No.15073846
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15073846

>>15072344

>> No.15073861

>>15072344
>that image
FUCKING STOP

>> No.15073871

>>15072344
what about -5

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15073884

>>15073846

>> No.15073970

>>15073795
Or you go to industry...

>> No.15074052

>>15073795
Seems comfy albeit lonely

>> No.15074093 [DELETED] 

>>15072344
>>15073846
>>15073884
How do you even discover these

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>>15072344
>>15073846
>>15073884

>> No.15074535

1/6 = 0.16
3/8 = 0.38
8/9 = 0.89
18/95 = 0.1895
23/96 = 0.2396
48/98 = 0.4898
98/99 = 0.9899
123/992 = 0.123992
198/995 = 0.198995
248/996 = 0.248996
498/998 = 0.498998
998/999 = 0.998999

>> No.15074539

>>15074535
When the NYSE switched from fractional share prices to decimal, one news outlet gave the example that 3/8 in the old system was equivalent to 0.38 in the new system

>> No.15074545

>>15072344
x^2 = 121
cross out the 2's
x = 11

>> No.15074548

>>15074535
16/64
cancel the 6's
= 1/4

19/95
cancel the 9's
= 1/5

26 / 65
cqncel the 6's
= 2/5

49/98
cancel the 9's
= 4/8
= 1/2

>> No.15075022
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15075022

>>15074093
autism

>> No.15075327

>>15074093
When you don't know shit, you come up with all sort of things.