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> computer science is less of a science and more of a tool / method Hmm. Not sure I can agree. What would you call things like the Complexity Zoo? (Computation
by RangerScience 8y ago
> computer science is less of a science and more of a tool / method
Hmm. Not sure I can agree. What would you call things like the Complexity Zoo? (Computational science? Part of mathematics?)
- mettamage 8y agoIt was appended with "for other disciplines" I'm not so much talking about the field itself but more how it is used for other disciplines. Mathematics is a discipline too and has a lot of academic work behind it but using an ANOVA or a t-test isn't scientific/academic in the mathematical sense. It's just a tool. The mathematical idea of an ANOVA has already been discovered, mathematics moved on.