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I love this idea! I'm just a working programmer, but right now I'm trying to read through the highlights on research into temporal databases. People have been w

I love this idea! I'm just a working programmer, but right now I'm trying to read through the highlights on research into temporal databases. People have been writing papers for 25-30 years, but it seems like not a lot has made its way into everyday practice or commercial products. Something was almost added to the SQL standard around 1997-2000, but was eventually rejected. SQL:2011 added something but it is pretty incomplete. I have been thinking I should put together a bibliography and a talk: temporal databases for web developers. A list curated by an expert would have saved me a lot of time! I'm also (less professionally) interested in the overlap between the results from Turing and Godel. I would love a guide and/or annotations for Turing's "On Computable Numbers", because it is not easy going. Also a list of papers for quantum computing....

dharmon 10y ago
Such a thing exists. It's called "The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold (of "Programming Windows" fame). It's very good, although the machinery of setting up the Turing machine can be tedious.
- pjungwir 10y ago
  Wow, purchased, thank you! Code starts out tedious too but is worth it by the end. I guess for any technical subject you have to make sure you cover sufficient preliminaries to get all your readers up to speed.
anonymousDan 10y ago
Pretty sure sap has temporal query support? At least I remember reading a research paper from them about some temporal extensions they've implemented.
Swizec 10y ago
I attempted this at some point. It went pretty well until I stopped having time. The first one was actually "On Computable Numbers" -> http://swizec.com/blog/week-1-turings-on-computable-numbers/swizec/6375 http://swizec.com/blog/week-1-turings-on-computable-numbers/... It helps that I had 2 semesters in college on essentially "What did Godel and Turing create for us"
p4bl0 10y ago
You will like The limits of mathematics by Gregory Chaitin. An old review I did: http://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html http://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html
- pjungwir 10y ago
  Thanks, I enjoyed your review! This article calls Ramanujan an "experimental" mathematician: https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 Also Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire kind of describes Riemann in similar terms: working via playful exploration and intuition. It seems like the complex zeros of his equation are a practical example of "is it random?" and truths that "just are for no reason."

dharmon 10y ago

Such a thing exists. It's called "The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold (of "Programming Windows" fame). It's very good, although the machinery of setting up the Turing machine can be tedious.

pjungwir 10y ago
Wow, purchased, thank you! Code starts out tedious too but is worth it by the end. I guess for any technical subject you have to make sure you cover sufficient preliminaries to get all your readers up to speed.

anonymousDan 10y ago

Pretty sure sap has temporal query support? At least I remember reading a research paper from them about some temporal extensions they've implemented.

Swizec 10y ago

I attempted this at some point. It went pretty well until I stopped having time. The first one was actually "On Computable Numbers" -> http://swizec.com/blog/week-1-turings-on-computable-numbers/swizec/6375 http://swizec.com/blog/week-1-turings-on-computable-numbers/... It helps that I had 2 semesters in college on essentially "What did Godel and Turing create for us"

p4bl0 10y ago

You will like The limits of mathematics by Gregory Chaitin. An old review I did: http://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html http://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html

pjungwir 10y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed your review! This article calls Ramanujan an "experimental" mathematician: https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 Also Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire kind of describes Riemann in similar terms: working via playful exploration and intuition. It seems like the complex zeros of his equation are a practical example of "is it random?" and truths that "just are for no reason."