Fascinating discussion of the nebulosity of electronic components featuring @robamacl and @mattskala. You don’t have to understand anything about electronics to get the key points (I hope! I don’t understand anything about electronics…)
Starting here:https://twitter.com/robamacl/status/1263505028591095808 …
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Enormous amount of professional STEM practice is tradition: things are done some way because they long have been. There’s usually some theoretical justification, but if you think for ten seconds you realize it can’t be right. https://twitter.com/mattskala/status/1263517792931844099 …pic.twitter.com/3Hgeu7y062
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In technical practice, as in social policy, retaining traditions is often wise (“Chesteron’s Fence”). And sometimes not. We’re seeing catastrophic consequences of retained obsolete traditions in both science and policy in the US covid debacle.https://twitter.com/mattskala/status/1263518727070334976 …
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It's hard to even talk about scientific craft, when scientific "method" means something so different.
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Nice way of putting it!
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