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<h1 class="post-title">What I learnt in Computer Science</h1>
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<time datetime="2018-10-30T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">30 Oct 2018</time>
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<p>I dropped out from an undergraduate course in Computer Science (CS, for short).</p>
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<p>While I was attending CS courses, however, I learnt how to detach myself, or abstract
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myself, from technological tools, which, as a so-called ‘digital native’ may
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know, changes ever so frequently.</p>
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<p>I learnt that if I have a fundamental skill, or what
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<a href="https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~bleong/">(one of)</a>
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my lecturer(s)
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called ‘first principles’, I can solve a given problem, regardless of how
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seemingly foreign the problem may be.</p>
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<p>Applying this concept in another context, it could be said that if I know
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the fundamental skills in social dealings, then regardless of which country,
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or culture, I find myself in, I can thrive (and not merely survive - but
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that’s a topic for another time, perhaps).</p>
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<p>That’s powerful. That’s empowering. (As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish,
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and you feed him once. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a life-time.”)
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And it gives one confidence. It
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certainly gives me confidence.</p>
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<p>But of course I credit all these lessons and benefits, or perks, to
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<a href="http://phtan.github.io/religion.html">my god</a> and his kindness and goodness.</p>
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2023-10-23 03:24:38 +00:00
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letter to M, my friend who practises Zen Buddhism
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<small><time datetime="2023-10-23T00:00:00+00:00">23 Oct 2023</time></small>
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letter to my brother-in-Christ, L.
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