Quickie: Two Hard Things
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by one errors.
—Think Different
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by one errors.
Think Different
Great very welcome humour.
That’s “10” things.
(Not saying if it’s base 2 or base 3. 😉
Could be any base, really.
I fear there is only one hard thing in Computer Science: science.
Is science hard – or using science?
My comment was a half-joke, playing with words. But here it is what I meant with the joke: science is hard, as learning from evidence is hard. Using known science to produce new applications is hard as well when we enter unknown territory and we expect to produce evidence that our ideas and inventions work.
As you know theory of knowledge or learning is a pilar in Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge, and I believe it is because creating knowledge we can trust is hard, reminding ourselves of the limitations of that knowledge is hard too.
I believe the hardest problem in computer science is trying to stick to evidence based learning.
There’s one hard thing in Computer Science …
Wishing it was a real science.🙄