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by interpunct 2y ago
Hmm..took my brain several orders of magnitude longer to warm up than a 6L6 power tube. AI suggested that I was being generous with my 0 dB S/N for social media, it should be -∞ dB. Good catch. It also didn't like my unit compati
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by interpunct 2y ago
Hello, Update, I thought of a way to express the parent comment here: 0 + 0 = 0, substituting literal values, dropping the units, for some convoluted overloading of the operator '+'. My TSH (thyroid test) came back from the lab w
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by interpunct 2y ago
My professor for Compilers 101 in grad school tasked us with working on an Ada subset compiler. I work best alone, but he insisted on making me work on a team. My experience with "teams" in college was a couple of us doing the w
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by interpunct 2y ago
I went to RPI's summer program for high school students in the mid 80s. I was hand assembling and linking assembly for a PDP-11 in the computer lab for a class, and I struck up a conversation with the sys admin of the "big"
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by interpunct 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! However, if you can discern "better" (i.e. 1 plain old bit of difference) by taking a few words off my posts on social media, you have "Beat the Shannon Limit". ;)
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by interpunct 2y ago
I agree. I recently started using an R4RS Scheme called "STk", the precursor to STklos, which I modded into a build system (replacing Make and Sh, for the most part) and a graphics DSL front-end to C. The author wrote a demo app
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by interpunct 2y ago
I wasn't trying to be snarky. Here is a 7 volume "A history of engineering and science in the Bell System" https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1460436 The first volume 1875-1925 is over 1000 pages. I
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by interpunct 2y ago
> great contribution One of his great contributions, I would argue, information theory being another, and secure telecommunications. Early work on switching networks (MS Thesis): https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.
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by interpunct 2y ago
> At the close of the war, he [Shannon] prepared a classified memorandum for Bell Telephone Labs entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography", dated September 1945. A declassified version of this paper was published in 1949
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by interpunct 2y ago
> Sorry for the rant No problem here. I deleted a rant turning into a screed about blog articles superimposing "The Book of Dragon" and "The Dragon Book", but after some consideration found this link: https:/&#
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by interpunct 2y ago
I hear you, since I spend half my free time fixing stuff that breaks on my house and its contents.
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by interpunct 2y ago
Of course, engineering the Bell System led to a few innovations and societal changes, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
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Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp(cs.cmu.edu)
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by interpunct 2y ago
And still meticulously adhered to, I'm sure. I guess you mean "management by walking around"? For perspective, we had TQM in the '90s, which consisted of orders to tell TQM consultants that we knew where the TQM manuals
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by interpunct 2y ago
I guess he would need an "Extreme Makeover" to go on "Undercover Boss". My dad was the financial controller for a large pizza chain in the '70s--they used to send him into the field to do spot checks, which was prog
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by interpunct 2y ago
> I've proven to my satisfaction that writing an interpreter in assembly is both fun and performant! Fun maybe/maybe not, but define "performant". I might drop into assembly for 1 or 2 orders of magnitude faster for