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alxmng on March 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational...

Sure. What would the study of human behavior or algorithms that aren’t computable with computers be called? Surely not “computer science”…

dcow on March 20, 2023 [–]

Humans are biological machines that can compute, no?

Or, you really don't think I can design a logical grammar to formally express the creation of a PB&J?

fsckboy on March 20, 2023 | [–]

more to the point, the universe is computational in nature, and humans are, at best, subroutines with a shitty ABI

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