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Mostly the latter. Doing the maths doesn’t always mean understanding something. As a simple example it’s pretty easy to treat gravitation of a spherical objec
by mr_toad 2y ago
Mostly the latter. Doing the maths doesn’t always mean understanding something. As a simple example it’s pretty easy to treat gravitation of a spherical object mathematically as a point source, but it was quite a conceptual leap, and it doesn’t mean you understand why you can treat it as a point source (and when you can’t).
I’m also reminded on the scene in “Severance” where the members of MDR are unable to explain their job to another department.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoIt's strange as I typically think the opposite - you don't really understand something until you can measure and quantify it. e.g. we don't have a handle on consciousness yet as we can't reliably measure it. However, when it comes to a "deep" understanding, then maybe numbers aren't enough and we need to be able to intuit what's going on that creates those particular numbers.