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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by alxmng on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:19AM (#35232807)
Sure. What would the study of human behavior or algorithms that aren’t computable with computers be called? Surely not “computer science”…
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by dcow on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:12PM (#35233750)
Humans are biological machines that can compute, no?

Or, you really don't think I can design a logical grammar to formally express the creation of a PB&J?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by fsckboy on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:44PM (#35235512)
more to the point, the universe is computational in nature, and humans are, at best, subroutines with a shitty ABI
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