@inerati I did an English minor just because I enjoyed creative writing and thought I might wanna do computational linguistics... imo courses where you learn to DO something are more challenging & worthwhile than the courses where you memorize facts or learn to be a snobby critic
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Reply · Mar 29, 2023@HemlockTapioca lol idk I did an English minor bec I was kinda tempted to do grad computational linguistics, idk that it had much of an impact thoReply · Mar 9, 2025@QiaochuYuan i did a math minor and never really felt overwhelmed except with Numerical Analysis homework keeping 30 decimal places while showing…Reply · Jan 8, 2024@loveofdoing @ESYudkowsky i like it, linguistic creativity >>> linguistic pedantryReply · Nov 3, 2023@truthandwhat no, huh interesting... tbh I'm not working that hard on anything except trying to digest reading & research for personal interests...