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One of the first "hacker" breakthroughs in my first startup was due to following citations on a paper kind of related to my problem until I got to a paper from
by vslira 2y ago
One of the first "hacker" breakthroughs in my first startup was due to following citations on a paper kind of related to my problem until I got to a paper from '61 implementing the exact algorithm I was needing at the time. Numerical approximations to a gnarly probabilistic problem that would make any engineer proud. Worked like a charm and, in a hardware thousands of times faster than it was designed to run, it was crazy efficient.
- richrichie 2y agoCould you please share the paper reference? Thank you.
- sitkack 2y agoOne of the nicest things about finding old papers is that often the "unworkable" technique now fits in L1 or L2 cache.
- fxtentacle 2y agoOr that RAM is practically endless now. I still remember when I was reading an old pattern recognition paper and they dismissed one simple, elegant solution as "obviously impossible" because they estimated it would need 10485760 KB of RAM. We then bought a server with 128 GB of RAM and shipped their impossible approach in production :) where it's been running nicely for 9 years now.
- stuaxo 2y agoNice, hope you let them know.
- noqc 2y agoWorse computers require better programmers.