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The fatal error in computer science was that it modeled complex systems without truly understanding them."

And yet, mechanical, civil, chemical, and electrical engineers have made great strides without such understanding, in fields where it is truly impossible to fully understand or model the forces at work, the materials in play, the structures in shape, or the physics in motion.

They manage to get by on approximations, so that's not it.



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