{"id":105,"date":"2006-11-09T00:49:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T07:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/knowledge-and-truth\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T07:54:50","slug":"knowledge-and-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/knowledge-and-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge and Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sfu.ca\/~mletourn\/personal\/\">one of our grad students<\/a> today.  He mentioned an old email sig he had seen, and I convinced him to send it to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you realize you know everything, you can get your Bachelor&#8217;s.<br \/>\nWhen you realize you know nothing, you can get your Master&#8217;s.<br \/>\nWhen you realize your supervisor knows nothing, you can get your Ph.D.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have truer words ever been spoken?  Since I think we have readers nearing the end of each of those phases, I thought it would be appreciated all-around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to one of our grad students today. He mentioned an old email sig he had seen, and I convinced him to send it to me: When you realize you know everything, you can get your Bachelor&#8217;s. When you realize you know nothing, you can get your Master&#8217;s. When you realize your supervisor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}