First Blog Post: Abstractions are Generous
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First Blog Post: Abstractions are Generous
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#2"Electrical engineers work with Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws, not the nightmare that is Maxwell’s Equations."
I have a strong feeling you are not an electrical engineer.
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#3"Electrical engineers work with Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws, not the nightmare that is Maxwell’s Equations." I have a strong feeling you are not an electrical engineer.
You are right. I did not mean to suggest that electrical engineering is easy -- clearly, I know nothing about it -- but only that electrical engineering benefits from abstractions too.
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#4"Electrical engineers work with Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws, not the nightmare that is Maxwell’s Equations." I have a strong feeling you are not an electrical engineer.
You are right. I did not mean to suggest that electrical engineering is easy -- clearly, I know nothing about it -- but only that electrical engineering benefits from abstractions too.
Not using Maxwell's equations is surely not one of them :)
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#5Great article right up until the last sentence. If anything moves a scientist to prayer, he has been mislabeled.
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#6Great article right up until the last sentence. If anything moves a scientist to prayer, he has been mislabeled.
Scientists are not allowed to pray?
I'm glad I live in America where I'm free to pray even if I can discover the mechanisms of the universe through experimentation.
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#7Great article right up until the last sentence. If anything moves a scientist to prayer, he has been mislabeled.
'Atheist' is not a prerequisite for 'rational', as much as many atheists like to pretend this is the case.
I don't personally 'get' prayer, nor do I practice it despite my Catholic upbringing, but I can see how the practice might be psychologically comforting. It's basically an acknowledgement of not having complete control or knowledge.
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#8Great article right up until the last sentence. If anything moves a scientist to prayer, he has been mislabeled.
My grandfather, David Fisher, has been writing an international radio program for decades called "Truth in the test tube". It's aimed at a general audience so it's not very in-depth scientifically, but the idea is to interview scientists who believe in God, just to get people to realize that they are not mutually exclusive. https://www.twr.org/judyblog/?p=2789 Even if you don't agree with those beliefs, you can't claim that religious people can't be scientists.
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#9This has turned into a discussion on religion, or lack there of, but I think the more important concept is how far we/technology has come.
If the best physicists/engineers were dropped on another planet with only the materials to live, how long would you bet it'd take them to produce a computer with an operating system on it equal in functionality and aesthetics to what we have today?
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#10Great article right up until the last sentence. If anything moves a scientist to prayer, he has been mislabeled.
My grandfather, David Fisher, has been writing an international radio program for decades called "Truth in the test tube". It's aimed at a general audience so it's not very in-depth scientifically, but the idea is to interview scientists who believe in God, just to get people to realize that they are not mutually exclusive. https://www.twr.org/judyblog/?p=2789 Even if you don't agree with those beliefs, you can't cla…
Regardless of your persuasion "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" by Knuth is well worth a read.
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Computer-Scientist-Language-Inf...