2 HN users recommended this talk2 months2022–2024score 2.5
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Recommended as a fantastic talk, valued both for its parallelism ideas and for the punch-card story.
Guy Steele's Strange Loop 2010 talk argues that programmers should not have to think about parallelism, and that languages should support algorithms built on independence and divide-and-conquer. He also recounts fitting a program onto a single punch card.
“It's a fantastic talk in its own right” (HN, 2023)
By thinking about things that were not applicable to the problem domain says Guy Steele in "How to Think about Parallel Programing: Not!": [this video] It's a fantastic talk in its own right, but the first bit about fitting a program onto a punch card by self-modifying the code involved (and just how much thought was about fitting-the-program, and how little relatively is involved in the-purpose-of-the-program) is quite eye opening.
Guy Steele Jr. worked on a language called "Fortress." There are a few good talks that he gives: - (toy problem) [link] - (parallelism) [this video] - (languages) [link]
Guy Steele has a talk [1] in which he recounts making some sort of utility program for the contemporary of the PDP-8, the IBM 1130. He describes all the gymnastics he went through to try to pack it into a single punch card, and also describes the benefits of having such a program on a single punch card rather than a series of them. [1] "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010) [this video]
Steele recounts packing a utility onto one punch card
Commutativity is important for e.g. parallel programming. See e.g. < [this video] >. In the context of linear algebra, it would also be good for folks to know that matrix multiplication (/linear transformation composition) is not commutative.
I would use Aerospike, it has strong consistency or session consistency and will soon get multirecord transactions. [link] And also see the second bullet point from this Guy Steele talk from 2010 Strange Loop. Synchronization and ordering and a lack of idempotency need to be heavily justified. "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010) [this video] transcript [link] thanks matthiasn! Previous discussion [link]
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