Grace Hopper on nanoseconds
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Grace Hopper on nanoseconds
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Re: Grace Hopper on nanoseconds
#2Nice share, thanks. Always easier to understand something with visualization.
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#3Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
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#4Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
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Re: Grace Hopper on nanoseconds
#5If you're unfamiliar with Grace Hopper, her wikipedia article is a great read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
The fact that she wrote the first compiler is extremely impressive, but she also found the first bug... -- a moth.
Re: Grace Hopper on nanoseconds
#6It reminded me of the 500-mile email story: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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#7Grace Hopper on Letterman
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#8After reading a bit more on Grace Hopper, particularly about the first ever (?) compiler "A-0" she made, I found this in-depth article describing it (and a bit more):
Re: Grace Hopper on nanoseconds
#9That first paragraph was as good as unreadable thanks to all the miles, gallons and Fahrenheits.
11.8 inch ... times about 2.5 is umm wait it's a link, maybe if I hover it, no they didn't put metric in the title tags either.
"In one millisecond, light travels 186 miles", which is about the same distance as a million squirrels put head-to-toe. Why not measure in squirrels? It makes about the same amount of sense, except that "one million" is a nice round number, unlike "186".
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#10That first paragraph was as good as unreadable thanks to all the miles, gallons and Fahrenheits. 11.8 inch ... times about 2.5 is umm wait it's a link, maybe if I hover it, no they didn't put metric in the title tags either. "In one millisecond, light travels 186 miles", which is about the same distance as a million squirrels put head-to-toe. Why not measure in squirrels? It makes about the same amount of sense, exce…
I don't endorse inches as a measure, but they are pretty intuitive. Maybe it's because the swedish word for inch is "tum", which means "thumb". And it happens to be 1.25 inches from the top of my thumb to the first joint.