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And if you’re an engineer this idea from relativity can be applied in distributed systems theory as well! See Leslie Lamport’s famous paper Time, Clocks, and th
by libraryofbabel 6y ago
And if you’re an engineer this idea from relativity can be applied in distributed systems theory as well! See Leslie Lamport’s famous paper Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978)[0].
I believe Lamport wrote a book on General Relativity before getting into computer science, so the connection runs deep.
[0] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
- proc0 6y agoCool. Distributed and asynchronous programming made me think of non-locality a lot, just looking at the clock isn't good enough to determine a sequence of events.