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Just your normal IT guy working in #London. Interest in #OpenBSD, #ProgrammingLanguages, #BoardGames, #ComputerGames. SoftEng-PhD@ETHZ.
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@krinkle met him a few times in my life. Not only an amazing researcher, but a great person. After Wirth passed away 2 years ago, the next big loss for computer science.
@thomas Wirth's Law ist mächtig
@eloquence I am very impressed with the Godot engine quality, though I have experienced a single crash and some intermittent strangeness with the volume controls. The game itself feels very unbalanced, inconsistent and the number of options are a bit overwhelming - feels more like StS1 with tons of mods installed. Sometimes less is more.
@wilfredh for me they are two very different things. := is assignment in an imperative programming language, leading to a state change. Let is the declaration of an equivalent name of an expression in a functional programming language.
My first download was at 2400 baud using ZModem. Large downloads were on Sneakernet using ÖPNV as transport. My first social network was FIDO and my first MMORPG was a MUD. I might be old, but I don't feel that way.
@warandpeas I had somehow expected the classic Waka Waka Bang Splat, a very old internet classic: https://spot.colorado.edu/~sniderc/poetry/wakawaka.html
Poetry

@lritter So, once you have an SCC, you are looking for all circular orders within it. Correct?
I am wondering if this could be computed as possible side-effect while the algo traverses the tree.
@lritter AFAIK, you build the strongly connected components with an algorithm like Tarjan, which gives you the topological tree of cycles as a byproduct. Tarjan is one of the most beautiful Algos out there. 😍
@mhoye @jonathankoren can absolutely relate. Constantly trying convince my quantitative colleagues that discrete maths is different from their stochastic and AI based reasoning.

I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs. It really has so much going for it.

(Via @jonathankoren )