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How far back in time could you go with your skills? (aussie.zone)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Basically the title, you need to use the skills you have now and be a productive member of society.

I don't mean go back and show the wheel or try invent germ theory etc.

For example I'm a mechanic i think I could go back to the late 1800s and still fix and repair engines and steam engines.

Maybe even take that knowledge further back and work on the first industrial machines in the late 1700s but that's about it.

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[–] 20 points 11 months ago (7 children)

As a waitress, probably the 1980's.

As a computer scientist / CS teacher, probably the 1960's... without being outed as a time traveler, anyway.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    computer scientist / CS teacher, probably the 1960's

    I'm not sure how well of a living they've made back then, but surely mathematicians / math teachers were a thing since ancient times.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Someone who knows a bunch of complexity theory, graph theory, and sorting algorithms for large data sets; but not calculus or set theory is gonna be conspicuously unusual the further back you go.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    but not calculus or set theory

    My computer science curriculum covered calculus - perhaps not as rigorously as the mathematical sciences, but enough for it to be "working" knowledge (personally, I've forgotten 90% of it since graduation).

    Plus, I am sure a computer science teacher should be at least familiar with these topics, or be capable of picking them up.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'm familiar, I could pick them them up (I have before, and like you, forgotten them from disuse), but I certainly don't know them offhand the way I know, say, Dijkstra's algorithm.

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