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From Buffer Overflows to "Weird Machines" and Theory of Computation [pdf](cs.dartmouth.edu)
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by alderssc 15y ago
I would hazard to guess its due to two things: 1) a lack of understanding about how the machine works, and in particular the way the memory is organized; and 2) lack of explanation of why anyone would need to use pointers. Introducing poi
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by alderssc 15y ago
Google has a history of doing things like this. In their IPO filing, they intended to raise $2,718,281,828 [see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/E_-_base_of_n... ].
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by alderssc 15y ago
As a math major, my view is probably biased, but I feel like one of the reasons mathematics is so widely used and applied in other fields such as physics, CS, and even biology these days is that they express or model, to a high degree of ac
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by alderssc 15y ago
The great G.H. Hardy felt similar: A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. as did Bertrand Russell (one of my favorite quot
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by alderssc 15y ago
This is a pretty interesting topic. I'm reminded of the famous trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel after WW2 and Hannah Arendt's book about the trial, "The Banality of Evil". Eichmann was responsible for over-seeing the trains that sent Jews
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by alderssc 15y ago
Knuth's observation on money appears to be explained by the economic 'law' of diminishing marginal utility.
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by alderssc 15y ago
I recommend The Apology of Socrates and The Republic, both written by Plato. The former because it's an excellent introduction to one of the west's most influential figures (Socrates). As a testament to that influence, any philosopher befor
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by alderssc 16y ago
Something slightly interesting might be the Rubik's cube group. By considering the Rubik's cube a group under the rotation operation, then we can essentially completely solve the Rubik's cube puzzle. If you are familiar with the Quaternions
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by alderssc 16y ago
I think integrating would be better, because it seems wrong to judge a products "success" only at some specific instant of time, rather than judging it over a full period of time. The sign of the first derivative only gives you the present