slackenerny
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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Book already referenced by GP, click your links. These are old classic conference proceedings edited by Zurek https://archive.org/details/ComplexityEntropyAndThePhysicsOf... but it’s a mixed bag unless you really fancy EG quantum field theorist’s opinions on workings of visual cortex.
Comment · 9 years ago
Montanari/Mezard perhaps?
Comment · 9 years ago
A. Hey edited „Feynman Lectures on Computation” for publication and later collected some assorted papers of guest lecturers Feynman would invite in „Feynman and computation – exploring the limits of computers”. This „It from bit” paper by Wheeler (Feynman’s advisor) is the 19th there.
Comment · 15 years ago
Also, it is prof. Vakil who hosts the MathOverflow site you surely heard of. Literature recommendations are sometimes also discussed.
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2446/best-algebraic-geomet... http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3041/the-importance-of-ega...
Comment · 16 years ago
Amusing fact is it didn't take long at all, compared to some later approaches ;) http://mathoverflow.net/questions/14356/bourbakis-epsilon-ca...
And a twist you might find worthy a mention in your forthcoming essay, http://mathoverflow.net/questions/40920/what-if-current-foun...
Comment · 16 years ago
I downvoted you without second thought, as I believe people change and holding them accountable for everything they've ever done forever is cruel.
However, now that I recall this lionhearted guy better, I think he should be held to his own standards.
Comment · 16 years ago
I spent half an hour composing meaningful description of insignificance of the work (without judging if it is indeed a result, attacked "uniqueness" is more of a technicality than anything much of a big deal) only to find out author also published stabs at some other Clay problems: http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4935 (PNP), http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2361 (RH)… at which point I have nothing more to say.
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Comment · 16 years ago
Cool, this.
A very nifty (if somewhat detailed) complexity analysis of the Algorithm X appeared in blogosphere's festschrift for Knuth's 70, http://11011110.livejournal.com/128249.html
I've used P159 in my absolutely first assignment in the intro programming class. I was to make a N-queens solver. The assignment obviously asked for a 8-line backtracking program. But I was naïve. I went to the library and turned it inside out. My solution was ca. 500 lines, and also implemented a way to find the number of solutions without computing them (this was from IIRC a paper by Rivin), and had a randomized mode which would find just a single solution but for fast for very large N (this I found in Norvig's AIMA in a footnote referencing a paper by J.M., I don't remember the page or the full name)). Good times.
Comment · 16 years ago
$100 in parts, according to this guy: http://vicacopter.com
I tried (unsuccessfully) to make his design a year ago and it was more like $300 though, and that assuming you have the RF equipment.
Guy works at NASA I think. The claim that his is the only fully open source autopilot is to my knowledge true. No docs or schematics though, but these could be adapted from other projects, http://mikrokopter.de http://diydrones.com
Fuchsia doesn't share as much of the story but does pick up where in Dante's Inferno the original Unix people tried to abandon the root user to redeem themselves almost 30 years ago. Combined with capability based model last seen deployed in the wild with OS/400 and Burroughs machines before that, it would be the first truly new OS in decades.