alt Hacker NewsHow many people drive cars without knowing how an engine works? Or make a phone call without knowing how voice compression for a cellular network does it's thing? Or eats food without knowing how it came together from the supply chain?
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VBprogrammer • yesterday at 7:44 AM
This feels like a stretch. It would be impossible for someone who didn't know how an engine worked to repair or improve the design of it.
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The mechanic who repairs the cars knows how the engine works.
The telco that manages loads and allocates networks knows how voice compression works.
The farmers and supermarkets know how the supply chain works.
None of your questions show why mathematics should include blobs of incomprehensible gloop, where no mathematician, no logician, no philosopher, no man on the street can make sense of said gloop, or use it in any way to further human knowledge.
When it's been decomposed down we can discuss this further, but now it's like saying red is red, just because.