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This does not compute. It's obvious. Programming is the human means to get a digital circuit to turn "one" and "zero" in a particular way. Applied programming
by pistle 12y ago
This does not compute. It's obvious.
Programming is the human means to get a digital circuit to turn "one" and "zero" in a particular way.
Applied programming is to a CS degree as diagnosing and curing disease by a physician is to microbiology.
Applied programming is to math what diagnosing and curing disease by a physician is to chemistry/physics.
For fun, go ask your dev friends to compare and contrast NP-complete and NP-hard today.
- thanatropism 12y agoI have a lot of psychiatrist friends. I had psychiatric treatment at some point, befriended my former doctor in the process and then his group of friends. It's amazing how much they have chemistry as a conceptual primitive -- just as much as I have linear algebra as a primitive. They drop "oxygenase" (or something) in casual conversation like I drop "eigenvector". And 90% of what they do is talk to depressed people and sometimes hand some Prozac or some Xanax!