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by algernonramone 7mo ago
Or A(4,2).
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by algernonramone 9mo ago
It's not immediately clear from reading this what this means for ACM books, both older ones and new ones. I'm a fan of a lot of their older books, such as the Turing Award Lecture anthology they published in the early 1990s. I&#x2
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by algernonramone 9mo ago
Seems somewhat related to Iverson's 1979 Turing Award lecture, "Notation as a Tool of Thought" ( https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p... )( https://news.ycombina
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by algernonramone 10mo ago
I am willing to admit that I find matrix multiplication ugly, as well as non-intuitive. But, I am also willing to admit that my finding it ugly is likely a result of my relative mathematical immaturity (despite my BS in math).
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by algernonramone 11mo ago
I don't know, but I hate it.
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by algernonramone 1y ago
Me too, at first I thought it was a takeoff on "Heathkit". Silly me, I guess.
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by algernonramone 2y ago
I always thought that was a cool idea, and I was disappointed when it was essentially abandoned after the PIII. I still think there’s value there for things like customizing processors for certain applications (having a standard base chip a
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by algernonramone 2y ago
I think ALGOL nowadays would likely work best as sort of a lingua franca psuedocode, I don’t think it would be too difficult to make that work. It kind of was already for a long time, as much of the Collected Algorithms of the ACM were orig
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by algernonramone 2y ago
I feel that "deterministic" is probably a better word here than "idempotent".
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by algernonramone 2y ago
The main problem with a statement like that is that "interesting" is extremely subjective. Personally, I often find math and CS to be more interesting when it's further from reality. To each his own, I suppose.
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by algernonramone 2y ago
This is great, and I will download it, but I might be missing something because I don't see the PDF? I guess I will stick to the epub.
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by algernonramone 2y ago
I would love to see him write a book, or even just publish a nice compendium of his papers ala Donald Knuth's Collected Papers series (with light editing/updating, background info, commentary, etc.) I think that would truly be a p
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by algernonramone 2y ago
Ah, OK, makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!
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by algernonramone 2y ago
My thought here is that not all of the data in the database is being accessed at the same time, so the un-accessed data is "at rest". Is that correct, or am I barking up the wrong tree?