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I have not read the book or even looked at it. As far as I know the only code bases I think as important are: PGP: The code could be printed on a t-shirt and a
by ecpottinger 4y ago
I have not read the book or even looked at it. As far as I know the only code bases I think as important are:
PGP: The code could be printed on a t-shirt and allowed communication that was hard to break.
Lossy-Compression: In the 1970s and early 1980s a lot of the work was on lossless compression, but the move to lossy compression made Sound and Video files small enough to move around.
Chaos Theory: Applied to weather forecasting and other complex systems.
Deep Learning: I do not understand it but it lets data that could not be processed before.
What else should I add?
- thedailymail 4y agoDespite all the recent melodrama in the cryptocurrency markets and environs, I think Satoshi's implementation of a decentralized blockchain will be considered historically important.
- Nursie 4y agoIt certainly sparked a multi-year hype and fraud cycle that caused some of the biggest crashes in history.
- edanm 4y agoAbsolutely! Whatever you might think about Bitcoin/Blockchains, Satoshi did solve a very hard CS problem that didn't have a solution before. I'm relatively skeptical of blockchain technologies and don't think they have any real use cases (except cryptocurrencies,) but I think in the long term, there must be some interesting things to do with the decentralization ideas created by Satoshi.