there has been abstraction and tooling in scientific thought for ages

astronomers don't need to grind like kepler did anymore and yet still learn and discover new things.

in biology my predecessors did gels

April 03, 2026 - 12:19 UTC

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I'm not saying that there aren't specific things you learn by using tools in certain ways that change when new tools and new layers of abstraction crop up.

it happens all the time.
we definitely should think about how to make sure that students still get the right computational literacy.
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