not only that, but the connection has to come from engineering. you can come up with a mathematical way to explain and improve a working system, but you can't take a pure mathematical concept and turn it into a design. reductionism is not capable of envisioning functioning systems that don't already exist to be studied. nothing is except evolution, which is what engineering is. what i'm getting at is that math, chemistry, and biology are also fake degrees in the same way art and gender studies are. just look at employment stats. people with jobs have degrees in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and biological engineering. meanwhile pure-science pseuds are lucky to be given the privilege of grovelling for government money in the research industry.
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