CS vs. Bio: our brains are not the same (an anecdote)
2007-12-18 / 17:26 / dave
Today I tried helping my office mate resolve some data discrepancies. We made graphs, checked the current database, talked to people who were here when the original data was produced, etc. No luck. What next? Maybe pull all the graphs and look for a pattern? Or look for old data migration logs to check for data corruption?
Our bio-statistician over-heard us. His suggestion? “Throw them out and see if the results change.”
Biologists & computer scientists… the brains are not the same.
(Insert your own comparison of Haskell and Erlang here.)
