Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)
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Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)
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#2Great read
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#3> Berlekamp also created an algorithmic trading system that he sold to Jim Simons and that became a starting point for Renaissance Technologies, now the world’s largest hedge fund.
Renaissance isn't the world's largest hedge fund.
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#4I first encountered his name when learning data encoding which used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_coding.
One thing that struck me there was the use of unary coding, which I thought was pretty cool. In my case I was writing a JPEG-LS decoder. Looking at the wiki, I see it is also used in some audio codecs as well.
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#5If, like me, you've learned to avoid everything Mr. Wolfram writes do yourself a favor and make an exception to read this one. It's great. Either he's learning from his mistakes or the meds are working.
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#6I first encountered his name when learning data encoding which used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_coding . One thing that struck me there was the use of unary coding, which I thought was pretty cool. In my case I was writing a JPEG-LS decoder. Looking at the wiki, I see it is also used in some audio codecs as well.
Also neat (and a prefix code) is Fibonacci coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_coding
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#7"""biology uses a more straightforward encoding, where some of the 64 possible triples just don’t represent anything"""
I don't think this is strictly true, 61 of the 64 codons translate into 1 of 20 amino acids, and the other 3 are "stop" codons, which I'd argue do represent something. (and at least one of those is sometimes translated as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenocysteine)
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#8Interesting article. I had not associated him with LSFRs, but did know about his eponymous ruler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler
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#9If, like me, you've learned to avoid everything Mr. Wolfram writes do yourself a favor and make an exception to read this one. It's great. Either he's learning from his mistakes or the meds are working.
This comment was flagged dead (maybe justifiably), but I vouched to bring it back. While it may sound like an insult, I felt the same pleasant surprise as 'tacos' while reading it. This was definitely a different voice than usual for Wolfram, and I genuinely hope it's because he's taken feedback from others on how his tone sometimes comes across.
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