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Making coal miners into programmers Many humans at present are not equipped to compete with machines—they are unable to do much more than routine jobs. There is a widespread belief (hope?) that humans can compete, once they are given proper training. However, I have long publicly doubted you could take many coal miners and make them into useful programmers. Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn Manual labor