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To the ones not eager to open a PDF: go ahead and read it, it's hilarious. Rejections of Dijkstra's, Codd's, Turing's, Shannon's, Hoare's, RSA's groundbreaking
by yread 14y ago
To the ones not eager to open a PDF: go ahead and read it, it's hilarious. Rejections of Dijkstra's, Codd's, Turing's, Shannon's, Hoare's, RSA's groundbreaking papers in computer science due to nit picking and short introductions.
For Shannon's paper:
The author claims
that “semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering
problems,” which seems to indicate
that his theory is suitable mostly for
transmitting gibberish. Alas, people
will not pay to have gibberish transmitted anywhere.
- danieldk 14y agoOr even better: At any point, there are sexy topics and unsexy ones: these days, television is sexy and color television is even sexier. Discrete channels with a finite number of symbols are good for telegraphy, but telegraphy is 100 years old, hardly a good research topic.
- ernesth 14y agoTo the ones eager to open a PDF, http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3493803 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3493803)