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The engineer explores in order to build, | The engineer explores in order to build, | ||
the scientist builds in order to explore. | the scientist builds in order to explore. | ||
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| + | What happens if both meet each other, if we | ||
| + | combine the characteristics of pure engineering | ||
| + | with pure science and ? Surprisingly, the best | ||
| + | and worst. The worst is an engineer which only | ||
| + | seeks to create problems that never were before, | ||
| + | those false engineers who conceal the truth and | ||
| + | produce complexity instead of true engineers which | ||
| + | hide complexity and produce the truth. | ||
| + | (unfortunately, many computer scientists fall in | ||
| + | this category. There are so many hot air merchants | ||
| + | at the universities.. In German you call them | ||
| + | "Schwindler" or "Schaumschläger". All they do is | ||
| + | producing hot air and complex useless frameworks | ||
| + | while inventing new buzzwords and acronyms. | ||
| + | In Marketing this is ok, but in computer science.. | ||
| + | They are a bit like intelligent ELIZA bots, | ||
| + | which never will achieve real intelligence, they | ||
| + | only produce a perfect illusion of intelligence. | ||
| + | Likewise, Schaumschläger will never produce any | ||
| + | real progress to science, but a perfect illusion | ||
| + | of progress. They are good in selling themselves, | ||
| + | in getting jobs and grants, and in pretending | ||
| + | to be important.) | ||
The best are "theory engineers" or "scientific | The best are "theory engineers" or "scientific | ||
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and new ways to build new types of systems. | and new ways to build new types of systems. | ||
Albert Einstein comes to mind. | Albert Einstein comes to mind. | ||
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| + | These are the extremes. | ||
| + | Except the best and the worst, we get a | ||
| + | a engineer who seeks to understand the | ||
| + | useful system he his building, | ||
| + | and a scientist who seeks to create | ||
| + | new kind of interesting theories that never | ||
| + | existed before. | ||
| + | Exactly what we need for a cyclic | ||
| + | round-trip process, which can be named | ||
| + | synthetic microanalysis. | ||
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