News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psychology (2016). Parent comment

Re:Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psycholo... by RangerScience on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:57PM (#17410790)
> computer science is less of a science and more of a tool / method

Hmm. Not sure I can agree. What would you call things like the Complexity Zoo? (Computational science? Part of mathematics?)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psycholo... by mettamage on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:17PM (#17411470)
It was appended with "for other disciplines"

I'm not so much talking about the field itself but more how it is used for other disciplines. Mathematics is a discipline too and has a lot of academic work behind it but using an ANOVA or a t-test isn't scientific/academic in the mathematical sense. It's just a tool. The mathematical idea of an ANOVA has already been discovered, mathematics moved on.

[ Parent | on HN ]