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Topic: Hey, Dibrom? (Read 3248 times) previous topic - next topic
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Hey, Dibrom?

I was just wondering what your background is? Hell, the backgrounds of all the people working on LAME these days. What kind of schooling does it take to be a forerunner in audio compression? Did you have to teach yourself all this stuff? Are you a 16-year-old kid in high school, or a prof at a University? Just wondering, 'cus most of this stuff is over my head and I'm almost three years into my degree. 

Hey, Dibrom?

Reply #1 –
I'm not Dibrom, but I'd say you're right on schedule.  About three years into a degree most students start to say to themself, "There's so much out there that I don't know...how am I going to learn all this stuff?"  I certainly felt that way with my math degree, and I know I wasn't alone...

Like they say, it's what you learn after you know it all that really counts!

Hey, Dibrom?

Reply #2 –
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I'm not Dibrom, but I'd say you're right on schedule.  About three years into a degree most students start to say to themself, "There's so much out there that I don't know...how am I going to learn all this stuff?"  I certainly felt that way with my math degree, and I know I wasn't alone...

Like they say, it's what you learn after you know it all that really counts!

hehe, yea. You just start thinking, "Man, in another year I'm supposed to know it all!" Obviosly, there's going to be a lot of learning to do on my own.

Hey, Dibrom?

Reply #3 –
I was always under the impression Dibrom was largely self taught.

Like you say, he has never said too much about it in the forum. I don't cruise every thread though.

Autobiographies are not exactly standard practice around here.

Hey, Dibrom?

Reply #4 –
You still won't know anything after your fourth year, at least in Computer Science.  It's in graduate school that you start to really know one area of CS, and you'll still only have a good basic understanding of the rest.

A large part of why you're there is to learn how to learn -- the technology will keep changing on you but you'll be able to learn new bits as needed for the area(s) you happen to work in.
 

Hey, Dibrom?

Reply #5 –
I'm CS. IT actually, but they're the same thing. I didn't learn anything new in college. I knew everything before the teacher spoke because I'd be tinkering (basically self-taught) with everything. I'd get exempted from exams and tests because ... uh.. well, aside from performing well already, I was additional paperwork which he didn't really have to do anyway.

I'd learn a few things here and there about somethings (how vague) but not directly because of subject matter. No one teaches psychoacoustic audio compression in school but every other kid there knows a little about mp3s. Every other kid tried napster (I never did. really.)

What you might learn in school is discipline. Everything else to some extent or another can be learned by books (or web sites.)