Education

Mathematical ability differs across cultures, with Western academia emphasizing abstraction over procedural speed AI is automating routine calculations, making conceptual thinking more valuable than ever Future professionals must focus on logical reasoning and model formulation to stay relevant After years of teaching here at SIAI, we have witnessed a varying cultural differences in perception of experts in AI/Data Science in the western hemisphere and in Asia.

Many amateur data scientists have little respect to math/stat behind all computational modelsMath/stat contains the modelers' logic and intuition to real world data

Boot camp is for software programming without mathematical trainingMSc is a track for PhD, with in-depth scientific research written in the language of math and stat

STEM majors are known for high dropoutsStudents need to have more information before jumping into STEM

Not the quality of teaching, but the way it operatesEasier admission and graduation bar applied to online degrees