[HN Gopher] The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution (1959...
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       The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution (1959) [pdf]
        
       Author : lawrenceyan
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2022-02-04 06:03 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | haensi wrote:
       | Don Knuth further elaborates on this in his great book Things
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       | > The truth in fact is that C. P. Snow got it wrong by at least
       | an order of magnitude -- there are many more than two cultures. I
       | think a lot of you know the Apple Macintosh ads telling us to
       | "think different," but people already do. From my own corner of
       | the academic world, I know for example that physicists think
       | different from mathematicians; mathematicians who do algebra
       | think different from mathematicians who do geometry; both kinds
       | of mathematicians think different from computer scientists who
       | work on algorithms; and so on and so forth. People often decry
       | this lack of unity in the knowledge of the world, but let's face
       | it: People are different. Vive la difference.
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       | Fun fact: PG mentions the two cultures while writing about Knuth
       | [1]
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       | [0]:
       | http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublicati...
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       | [1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html?viewfullsite=1
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       | [2]:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_a_Computer_Scientist_Ra...
        
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