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1798 points jerryX | 4 comments | 30 Nov 18 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jules ◴[30 Nov 18 09:50 UTC] No.18567950[source]▶
If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...
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armada651 ◴[30 Nov 18 11:32 UTC] No.18568339[source]▶
So Computer Science is Engineering?
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ouid ◴[30 Nov 18 11:52 UTC] No.18568428[source]▶
computer science is math
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1. pas ◴[30 Nov 18 12:06 UTC] No.18568482{3}[source]▶
engineering is math too, math is eating everything, oh noes!

but not really, that's software after all. engineering is applied math, so largely software modeling, whereas CS is theoretical work. abstract problems, pure solutions.

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2. vonmoltke ◴[30 Nov 18 13:39 UTC] No.18568973[source]▶
> engineering is applied math

It's applied math and applied science. The science informs how to apply the math, since the math is a model of natural phenomena. In fact, most of the math came to engineering via the science.

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3. 4ad ◴[30 Nov 18 14:04 UTC] No.18569155[source]▶
No, math is math, engineering is engineering, and science is science.

Engineering and science are not math, even though they use math, and engineering is not science, even though it uses science. They are all very different disciplines.

4. threatofrain ◴[30 Nov 18 16:11 UTC] No.18570067[source]▶
I would argue that CS and type theory explores the very foundations of math.