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by tychonoff 5y ago
I'm a 73-year-old Canadian programmer with no formal education in computing. After completing a PhD in pure Mathematics, I started working the next day writing scheduling algorithms in Fortran on an IBM 4341 (my supervisor played poker
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Where to find the world’s best programmers(cio.com)
4 points by tychonoff 5y ago|0 comments
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by tychonoff 6y ago
I remember studying this book 40+ years ago. It was a joy to read.
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by tychonoff 6y ago
Interview programmers like you would a carpenter: 1) Describe some projects you've worked on, and your role in them 2) Describe some of your favourite projects, or accomplishments 3) What are your favourite tools? 4) How do you think y
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by tychonoff 7y ago
Mathematics isn't just another toolbox - it also represents an attitude. Well-structured code, modularization, and generality are natural by-products of theorem proving. So interest in any area of mathematics will make you a better pro
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by tychonoff 7y ago
Nice work. But on page 43 "quadratic" is misspelled.
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by tychonoff 7y ago
Why was Rosalind Franklin not awarded the Nobel Prize?
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by tychonoff 7y ago
Presumably you mean Justin. His father, Pierre, was supremely confident and for good reason. He was in a class by himself as an intellectual and politician.
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by tychonoff 10y ago
I did a PhD in pure mathematics decades ago, simply because it was so interesting. None of it seemed practical at the time (eg. category theory, topology, Horn logic) but that changed when computing began to embrace these ideas. In fact, on
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Justin Trudeau explains the basics of quantum computing to reporters(macleans.ca)
55 points by tychonoff 10y ago|49 comments
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FBI 'could hire hackers on cannabis' to fight cybercrime(bbc.com)
1 points by tychonoff 12y ago|0 comments
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From head injury to math genius(news.nationalpost.com)
3 points by tychonoff 12y ago|0 comments
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Facebook as a disease(plus.maths.org)
12 points by tychonoff 12y ago|9 comments
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Body heat powers flashlight(cbc.ca)
4 points by tychonoff 13y ago|0 comments
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by tychonoff 13y ago
I obtained a PhD in pure math 30 years ago, and promptly went into computing with no programming skills. Mathematics allowed me to see things in a more general light, appreciate the importance of elegant code, and work on interesting proble
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by tychonoff 14y ago
Abraham Robinson's Non-standard analysis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_analysis ) used a modern axiomatic approach to legitimize Isaac Newton's intuitive use of infinitesimals, by creating a superset of the real numbers, some
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US population = Pi X 100 million(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by tychonoff 14y ago|0 comments
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by tychonoff 14y ago
Thanks for the Chaitin lecture - he's a brilliant guy and outstanding speaker. His reference to Liebnitz reminds me of a beautiful quotation of his that goes something like: "Although the world may be a dream, I would call that dream real
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Using Math To Piece Together a Lost Treasure(spiegel.de)
3 points by tychonoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by tychonoff 15y ago
The author shunned mathematics in favor of programming, but this exercise showed why that was a mistake. Compared to serious mathematics, programming is relatively trivial. With mathematics, you can do anything in computing. Without it, you
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by tychonoff 15y ago
The fact that everybody Googles what others have already done, instead of reading a manual (which no longer exists anyway) says it all. Suppose your car mechanic did that?
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by tychonoff 15y ago
Nice.
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by tychonoff 15y ago
I'm cleaning up someone else's code that didn't contain a single comment. When finished, the cost for doing this will exceed the original project (we're talking man-months here). After that, I'll worry about correctness and efficiency. In t
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by tychonoff 15y ago
Nice article. But no real reference to code documentation. As someone who's done a lot of maintenance programming, few programmers seem to care about this.
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by tychonoff 15y ago
This is amazing data, and I expect that much more research is coming our way. It would be interesting to speculate on what kind of databases might be needed.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
I agree with this. There's too much emphasis on the latest tools or upgrades.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Nice app.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Another nice Math textbook - really solid presentation.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
This is a very nice book.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Trend Micro (Titanium) says this is a dangerous site.

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