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Tag Archives: Hofstadter
Craftsman or Engineer?
A lot has been written on the differences between Craftsman and Engineer. Recently I came across a simple example by Hofstadter & Sander, that nicely shows the basic difference in thinking: Continue reading
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Abstraction makes the Engineer
From my own experience I may say, what separates the engineer from the craftsman is clearly the ability to abstract. Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction, analogy, Douglas Hofstadter, education, Emmanuel Sander, engineer, engineering, Hofstadter, marking, model, Modelling, parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, software engineering, square, surfaces and essences, thinking
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