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One of the nicest things about finding old papers is that often the "unworkable" technique now fits in L1 or L2 cache.

• fxtentacle 2y ago
  Or 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 ago
    Nice, hope you let them know.
    • alunchbox 2y ago
      Is there a name for this phenomenon, where with limited resources humans get more creative? There are still some astonishing technologies that are ongoing today, but much more limited to the early era of computer science.
      • sitkack 2y ago
        Limitivity