This in itself is a superpower, especially in computer science where history is considered a waste of time.
This is commonly even true in actual research computer science, where you'd think papers were crucial. Nowadays with the flood of "PR" preprints particularly in machine learning, it would be impossible to keep up and so nobody tries -- most of those papers write-once-read-never.
When I moved out of computing into biochemistry and medicine, and now into climate, I found people take papers seriously, which is a pleasure.
This in itself is a superpower, especially in computer science where history is considered a waste of time.
This is commonly even true in actual research computer science, where you'd think papers were crucial. Nowadays with the flood of "PR" preprints particularly in machine learning, it would be impossible to keep up and so nobody tries -- most of those papers write-once-read-never.
When I moved out of computing into biochemistry and medicine, and now into climate, I found people take papers seriously, which is a pleasure.