Computer Science

Daily tweets about computer science and related stuff @JohnDCook.

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'Writing code is often a constant struggle against distraction.' -- Joy of Clojure

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Classic cryptography: The Playfair cipher https://t.co/94h4hrstw2

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New post: Naively summing an alternating series

https://t.co/KVVKnMw0vZ

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The Yoda of Silicon Valley https://t.co/7VNsXfV9lc

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Minimum criteria for a language to be Turing complete https://t.co/S8Q87wyBiE

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'The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand.' -- Douglas W. Jones

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Cardinal rule of floating point arithmetic: If x and y agree to n bits, then you can lose up to n bits of precision computing x-y.

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Floor, ceiling, bracket https://t.co/iaw945d2ap

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C++ templates are Turing-complete https://t.co/Wi0O1Uvp4m

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Mathematics for Computer Science https://t.co/ouOaiypAAT [339 page pdf]

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'It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious.' -- Christopher Strachey

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Spot checking polynomial identities

https://t.co/nDlxIGEeDH

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Eight fallacies of declarative computing https://t.co/zuELPA09BS

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“Modern cryptanalysis is possible primarily because people make mistakes.” — Bruce Schneier

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"We're surrounded by the passion projects of the optimists of the past." -- Kevin Kelly

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New post: Online (one-pass) algorithms

https://t.co/rMKxlkCKUF

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Kerkhoffs' Principle: The security of a cryptosystem should not depend on keeping the cryptographic algorithm secret.

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Privacy implications of hashing database attributes https://t.co/5M9CtfNKmz

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Great works in programming languages, collected by Benjamin C. Pierce https://t.co/h2x6aXUt7U

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Programs and Proofs: Mechanizing Mathematics with Dependent Types https://t.co/nQ5DmEZzQ8