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> The thing is that programmers aren't writing code for the audience of academics and I think that's very reasonable. Why are academics not writing for the audi
by kweingar 3y ago
> The thing is that programmers aren't writing code for the audience of academics and I think that's very reasonable. Why are academics not writing for the audience of programmers? That feels far less reasonable.
I think this is the core of the issue. The audience here is researchers in the field of random algorithms. Why do you think that it should also be readable by a layman programmer without any study or background knowledge in random algorithms? 99.999% of programmers will never implement invertible Bloom lookup tables. The few that will have studied the math. Seems like a fine arrangement to me
- insanitybit 3y agoAs I said before, I believe that one of the values of research in a domain is the ability for practitioners of that domain to execute on said research. > 99.999% of programmers will never implement invertible Bloom lookup tables. I have actually gone through a bloom filter paper in order to implement it before, with zero math background. I had to teach myself a bunch of irrelevant shit and build my own glossary - absolutely waste of time and it made the whole thing far more daunting. More programmers would likely implement the constructs described in papers were they more approachable. > Seems like a fine arrangement to me To my knowledge, it is a well known problem that academic papers rarely turn into practical applications. I believe that the approachability of papers is a major component.