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Intriguing! I'll have to let that percolate...
by Scramblejams 5y ago
Intriguing! I'll have to let that percolate...
- dataflow 5y agoI haven't fully figured out the implications to be honest. Some are more intuitive than others. For example, it would mean (some?) financial engineering is a misnomer ;) but it would also suggest that designing digital circuits is only engineering in certain cases, like high-speed cases where you have to make the design robust to extraneous analog effects. For what it's worth, I think it somewhat aligns somewhat with your point about abstractions.
- Scramblejams 5y agoI appreciate the focus on abstractions. I'm unenthusiastic about giving up on (b), because when you've got a discipline where anybody can reach for any old terrible abstraction and stand some unholy monstrosity up that actually seems to work okay, I have a difficult time wanting to call it engineering. And I am fully in favor of financial engineering not being engineering. :-)