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What do you consider to be the biggest technological advancement for electrical components?
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 28 2018, @09:16PM
Understanding very definitely required. Without a sufficient understanding of quantum mechanics, even the idea of the transistor would have been impossible. It's not something you find by accident.
Understanding does not necessarily mean understanding the first principles. If you only consider someone to understand computers if you understand it from first principles, then you probably can count the number of people who understand computers on one hand. There are probably not many people who have in-depth knowledge of everything in semiconductor physics, integrated circuits, chip design, processor design, computer architecture, motherboard layout, the various bus systems, assembly programming, compiler technology, all programming languages used in the computer, operating system design, GPU programming, …
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.