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Or A(4,2).

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 …

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.yco…

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 ma…

I don't know, but I hate it.

Me too, at first I thought it was a takeoff on "Heathkit". Silly me, I guess.

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 proces…

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 ti…

I feel that "deterministic" is probably a better word here than "idempotent".

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 realit…

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.

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,…

Ah, OK, makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!

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 …

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