most of the takes in this articles are flat out wrong... seems like a clickbaity one to me... "Mathematical models take us down the wrong path"... quiet the opposite... I gave a few masters students some distributed systems algorithms to code, they did and they thought it was working great (only took few months for them to achieve that too).... until, I created a mathematical model, followed by a framework to put these implementations into a controlled schedulers exploration. Guess what happened? even though I had 7 years of experience working with systems in different setups, even I got them wrong at first till the model (based on the mathematical model aka operational semantics) showed me where it went wrong, then I fixed things till all these implementations work correctly. Even unintended bugs by the exploration algorithms got caught by this scheduler!This is not to mention many (if not all) of the other headings are wrong too. Not even going to waste time reading this.
No one can deny there are things that need to be brought to a better standards in academia, but denying the usefulness and depth of these degrees based on outlier super achievers is zealous, to say the least all while claiming "arrogance" on academia.
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