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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by bee_rider on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:42AM (#35276546)
A “tool to get things done” doesn’t seem to contradict the math or engineering point of view. Which is to say, a screwdriver is an engineered device that is also a tool (it also has a mathematical description I guess, just, a fairly boring one from a pure math point of view I guess).
Re:Cheating Is All You Need by eightysixfour on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:24PM (#35277188)
Sure, but the relationship is different.

Imagine going to school, a boot camp, or being self taught in everything about screwdrivers and screws. You can discuss at length the advantages and disadvantages of different shapes (Robertson bits > all), materials, screw threads, etc. You can custom design a screwdriver and screw for a specific application, taking into account all of the relevant constraints.

Now imagine the guy who needs to tighten a loose cabinet door.

Their relationships with the tools are entirely different. Screwdrivers don’t have nearly the complexity or ability to generate work leverage that computers do, moving even a few percent of those capabilities from the first group to the second is huge. It is, at minimum, Excel huge.

Re:Cheating Is All You Need by Vespasian on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:42PM (#35277458)
That's a great analogy which I will steal.