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Future applications of computers to your area of expertise
Is a self-discussion Richard Hamming suggests in his book The Art of Doing Science and Engineering. Time to gaze into the crystal ball.
Continue readingCan machines think?
Is a question Richard Hamming poses in his book The Art of Doing Science and Engineering. Here is my shoddy answer.
Continue readingProblem Spaces, Initial Positions, and Local Optima
Initial positions can have significant effect on the outcome of a local search procedure, since you risk arriving at a local optimum. As an example, consider this quine:
Continue readingOn “Thinking Out Loud”
An observation about how so-called “thinking out loud” while problem solving is impossible for certain modes of thought.
Continue readingLearning Vectors: Up and Down
A meditation that was intended to be about learning vectors (up and down) by contrasting SICP and NAND2TETRIS, but which instead relegated them as mere side notes in favour of pondering learning vectors and implications in general (for CS).
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