I'm also an engineer by degree, though I'm not a practising one.As an engineer — T Clark
I thought that all an engineer has to know is how to create things and achieve things when one does NOT know. An engineer is a master of not knowing.In order to do my job, I have to know things about the world and I have to know how I know them. — T Clark
You never come to know things. You just come to know what is not the case - that the retaining wall cannot fail through this and those particular mechanisms. But there may be a mechanism that you have not considered through which it can fail. There are always assumptions that can be wrong, etc. That's why engineers use things like factors of safety, and so on so forth.In the process of coming to know things — T Clark
You never come to know things. You just come to know what is not the case - that the retaining wall cannot fail through this and those particular mechanisms. But there may be a mechanism that you have not considered through which it can fail. There are always assumptions that can be wrong, etc. That's why engineers use things like factors of safety, and so on so forth. — Agustino
I don't really have favorites. For any basic level online skills (I work in development & marketing atm), udemy.com - for advanced level stuff, learning by yourself, thinking, and asking around on forums. Also books.Do you have any favorite sources of information that would be of interest? — T Clark
Someone sent me this on email and I was listening to it in bed last night - and I realised that it is absolutely true. There is no teacher, no guru, no book, no leader, no master, no saviour - it all depends on you. You alone can figure things out, nobody else can tell you what you ought to do. — Agustino
Despite the wonders of the on-line digital world, paper is still the best medium to present and store information over the long run. I love books, libraries, and bookstores. Short of fire and flood, paper resists many threats. Magnetic pulses don't affect them; ordinary cold and heat are nothing to books. Humidity can be a problem, but that's true for just about everything. Even so, manuscripts published before printing was invented have held up well. — Bitter Crank
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