Timeline for What core skills should every computational scientist have?
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| Jun 20, 2017 at 14:17 | comment | added | Jan Hackenberg | @JedBrown you might want to put runtime and memory complexity analysis skills, e.g. theoretical informatic. I work with larger point cloud data and quadratic runtime behaviour results in uncomputable procedures. Without having learned it at University I would have a hard time making it work. | |
| Mar 30, 2012 at 11:51 | comment | added | naught101 | Since this is a community wiki, some or all of these should be split off into separate answers | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 13:06 | comment | added | Jed Brown | @FaheemMitha Thanks for the spelling corrections. I intentionally left out performance because I don't think it is as universal as the other topics. People developing library and application software should certainly understand performance (at the hardware and software level), but people developing algorithms or using the software for science can often get away with heuristics and observed trends. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 12:46 | history | edited | Jed Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
spelling, thanks Faheem Mitha
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| Feb 3, 2012 at 8:51 | comment | added | Faheem Mitha | Typos: "probelms" and "burried". SE wouldn't let me fix them - too small an edit. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 8:33 | comment | added | Faheem Mitha | Good list. A basic understanding of performance issues should be in there too. I've met too many people who don't understand the simple concept of profiling code. NB: performance should be taken to mean not just speed issues but also memory usage. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 3:40 | comment | added | Jed Brown | Thanks @EpiGrad, I changed it to "domain knowledge" with those as examples. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 3:40 | history | edited | Jed Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 20:12 | comment | added | Fomite | I'd change "Physics and Engineering" to subject matter expertise. After all, we're not all physicists or engineers. The spirit of that part of the answer is in the right place, but there's a pretty glaring assumption. | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 19:55 | comment | added | Paul | I agree with Jed. LaTeX is absolutely necessary! :) | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 18:06 | history | edited | Jed Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 16:04 | history | answered | Jed Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |