Computer scientists and programmers live in an inherently discrete world where there’s algebra everywhere you look but very little calculus outside certain nich

Computer scientists and programmers live in an inherently discrete world where there’s algebra everywhere you look but very little calculus outside certain niches. I’m reminded of the Feynman and the Connection Machine story [1] where he ended up analyzing some complex binary circuits in terms of differential equations because as a physicist he lived and breathed the continuum – unlike his computer engineer coworkers! [1] https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machin...