If you want to know how computers work, do electrical engineering. If you want to know how electricity works, do physics. If you want to know how physics works, do mathematics. If you want to know how mathematics works, too bad, best you can do is think about the fact it works in philosophy.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If you want to know how philosophy works, do sociology...

It's kind of like a horseshoe with philosophy and math at the ends.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A horseshoe capped off by Computer Science 😉

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'd count theoretical computer science as a subfield of math, and practical software engineering among the other engineerings on the harder side of the centre.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't disagree with that. Discrete mathematics was a core subject when I did my Computer Science course.

But I do still laugh when I tell people I'm a 'scientist', with my fingers crossed behind my back of course 😉

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