[zavec]

It's bitter for me because I like looking at how things work under the hood and that's much less satisfying when it's "a bunch of stats and linear algebra that just happens to work"

[warkdarrior]

So you prefer "a bunch of electrons, field effects, and clocks than just happen to work"?

[schoen]

If you're building on a computer language, you can say you understand the computer's abstract machine, even though you don't know how we ever managed to make a physical device to instantiate it!