Fond memories. One of my first job out of college was to approximate splines by a sequence of straightlines and arcs. I rolled my own dynamic programming hack f

Fond memories. One of my first job out of college was to approximate splines by a sequence of straightlines and arcs. I rolled my own dynamic programming hack for that. On getting my first paycheck my first reaction was, "Whoa! what ? I can write code that people are willing to pay real money for". Given that I was not trained in CS, that was an empowering feeling. On Picasso, I recall he was deeply affected by the cave paintings of Altamira. I think the influence clearly shows in his bull. He also said something to the effect that painting as a craft has not seen much innoavation since those Altamira artists. I dont know whether to agree or disagree, but the Altamira paintings do have this something very powerful and visceral about it.