5 month ago
gleuschk : E.W. Dijkstra Archive: Introducing a course on calculi (EWD 1213) - It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change.
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6 month ago
gleuschk : InformIT: Interview with Donald Knuth > Interview with Donald Knuth - I didn't know about 'literate programming' -- seems cool. Also, DK uses the word 'newfangled'.
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : Computer Science Unplugged - Simple worksheets to explain CompSci concepts like text compression or sorting algorithms. Pretty nifty. [via] #
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gleuschk : Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone [PDF] - Baez and Stay
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7 month ago
deusx : Moserware: What Does It Take To Become A Grandmaster Developer? - Identifying more "chunks" and amassing a personal repertoire of patterns and things to better work with your "7 plus or minus 2" memory buffer
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7 month ago
deusx : Phil Windley's Technometria | Marc Hedlund: Debugging Hacks, What They Never Taught You About Solving Hard Bugs - "There’s no doubt that debugging is a critical skill for anyone who codes."
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9 month ago
gleuschk : Knuth 3:16 - a commemoration of one of the great computer scientists of ancient times, Donald Ervin Knuth.
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9 month ago
gleuschk : American Scientist Online - The Easiest Hard Problem - partitioning a set of integers into two subsets of equal sum: NP-complete
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9 month ago
gleuschk : The Mythical 5% - very similar things could be said about mathematicians
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deusx : Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian Computing 5: Brushstrokes - "We should expect to learn. Sophisticated tools require study and effort, and they repay that effort by letting us do things we could not do otherwise"
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13 month ago
deusx : Nabble - Re: why each erlang process sets 233 words as its default heap size? - "The Erlang runtime system allocates memory for a process in increments of Fibonacci numbers."
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13 month ago
deusx : Jeff Barr’s Blog » Sentimental Value of Computer Science Books - "I still have too many shelves crammed with books that I will in all likelihood never need again, but I can’t bear to part with them — I am sentimentally attached to many of the computer science textbooks from school and career."
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14 month ago
deusx : Killer poke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing hardware damage (i.e., actual physical, irreversible damage) on a machine and/or its peripherals by the insertion of invalid values, via e.g. BASIC's POKE command, into a memory-mapped contro
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14 month ago
deusx : My Published Works: BYTE, October 1980 - "Do not be intimidated by the prospect of over 16,000 user-defined instructions. Instead, welcome the ability to microprogram any or all of your favorite machine architectures into the virtual machine now available."
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14 month ago
deusx : J!NX : Computer Gift - Stop Laughing Computers are cool now Sticker - Clothing for Gamers & Geeks
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14 month ago
deusx : Inverse Reinforcement Learning - "To implement inverse reinforcement learning to derive the underlying reward function from sample observations of policies."
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14 month ago
deusx : Amdahl's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Amdahl's law, named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved."
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15 month ago
deusx : The MyCPU - Project: A homebrew computer by Dennis Kuschel - "The MyCPU is a "Central Processing Unit" that is completely built with discrete logic gates."
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15 month ago
deusx : NestedVM - "any application written in C, C++, Fortran, or any other language supported by GCC can be run in 100% pure Java with no source changes."
Simon Willison : NestedVM - NestedVM. Provides binary translation from a GCC compiled MIPS binary to a Java class file, letting you run anything supported by GCC on the JVM with no source changes.
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16 month ago
deusx : The DigiBarn Computer Museum - "The DigiBarn Computer Museum seeks to capture personal stories and track technological evolution through a large collection of vintage computer systems, manuals, videos, interviews, and other fossil relics of the "Cambrian explosion" of pe
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18 month ago
deusx : How To Tell Stuff To A Computer - The Enigmatic Art of Knowledge Representation - "I created this website in order to help demistify the science of knowledge representation (KR for short) for all who are interested in this still largely underappreciated scientific field."
joshua : how to tell stuff to a computer - cute summary of knowledge representation
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18 month ago
deusx : The Truth About Lisp - "Learning lisp will alter your life."
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deusx : Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped--Now - "in the last few years I've been asking computer scientists and programmers whether they've ever typed E-N-G-E-L-B-A-R-T into Google-and none of them have."
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20 month ago
deusx : The Curious Mind | Articles / Classic Texts in Computer Science
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