Pythagorean theorem ✍️
It is something most people remember from school. The two shorter sides of a right triangle relate to the diagonal in a specific squared way. The vector form shown here expresses the same idea, using more advanced language. A vector is simply an arrow that has a length and a direction. Take one arrow pointing east and another pointing north; they are perfectly perpendicular and completely independent of each other. When you place them end to end, a third diagonal arrow connects your starting point to your finishing point. The theorem states that if you square the length of the first arrow and the length of the second, then add those squares together, you get exactly the square of the diagonal's length. This is always true, as long as the two arrows meet at a right angle. Three steps east and four steps north puts you exactly five steps diagonally from the start, because 3² + 4² = 5². The reason for expressing it this way is that vectors are not limited to flat triangles on paper. They work in three dimensions, ten dimensions, or a million dimensions; this matters a lot. When GPS calculates your position, when a computer renders a 3D scene, or when AI measures the similarity between two pieces of data, they all apply this same theorem to arrows in higher-dimensional spaces. However, the key idea behind all of this is much simpler: truly perpendicular things don't interfere with each other. When two directions are completely independent, their contributions add up cleanly and perfectly, without any messy overlap. The Pythagorean theorem elegantly shows that independence has consequences beautiful, precise, and useful ones.
I donno, somehow I have a positive feeling of Japanese 5th gen fighter development - some GCAP or something - Lets see, If our people crack engine development (Like nuclear powered submarines - once impossible to build)
-France & Germany's Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet program collapses
-France to blame?
-Collapse of the program stemmed from disagreements between French Dassault Aviation & European aerospace group Airbus over the development of a joint next-generation fighter aircraft
-FCAS program was launched in 2017 by Macron & former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with Spain later joining the initiative
-Project was intended to replace France's Rafale fighter jets & the Eurofighter aircraft operated by Germany & Spain
-European Parliament member Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann: Projects like this can only succeed on equal footing. The French industry claimed a dominant leadership role, while Germany was expected to tag along simply."
Dennis Ritchie invented C in 1972, co-built Unix in 1969, and his code is running inside every device you are reading this on right now and the colleague who announced his death had to do it through a Google+ post because no journalist thought to check.
He worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey for 44 years. He never gave a keynote. He never ran a company. He never appeared on a magazine cover. He just wrote code that became the invisible foundation everything else is built on.
Here is what he actually built, and why it matters more than almost anything that happened in tech.
In 1969, Bell Labs had just walked away from one of the most ambitious computing projects in history. The Multics project, a joint effort between MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, had collapsed under its own weight. Too complex. Too expensive. Too slow. Bell Labs pulled out.
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie refused to let the ideas die.
Working in a small office in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix in three weeks during the summer of 1969. One week for the file system. One week for the process management. One week for the command shell. Ritchie was working alongside him, and when the system needed a language that could express what they were building, he built one.
In 1972 he completed C.
C was not just another programming language. It was a different philosophy about what a programming language should be. Before C, most systems code was written in assembly, which meant every program was tied to the specific hardware it ran on. You could not move code between machines. You rewrote it from scratch every time.
C changed that. It sat close enough to the hardware to be fast, but abstract enough to run on anything. When Thompson rewrote the Unix kernel in C in 1973, it became the first operating system that could be picked up and moved to a completely different machine without starting over. Portability was a new idea. Ritchie made it real.
The branching that followed is almost impossible to overstate.
Unix spread from Bell Labs to universities. At Berkeley, it became BSD. BSD became the foundation of macOS and iOS. Unix influenced Linus Torvalds, who built Linux in 1991. Linux now runs every Android phone, every major web server, every supercomputer on the Top500 list, and the overwhelming majority of cloud infrastructure at AWS, Google, and Microsoft.
C became the parent language of C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C. Rob Pike, who worked across the hall from Ritchie at Bell Labs for 20 years, said it plainly: "The browsers are written in C. The Unix kernel that the entire internet runs on is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C."
Ritchie won the Turing Award in 1983. He won the National Medal of Technology in 1998, presented by President Clinton. He was head of System Software Research at Bell Labs for decades.
He answered emails from strangers with technical questions until the end of his life. His home address stayed listed in the phone book. His colleague Brian Kernighan, who co-authored the definitive C textbook with him, said Ritchie was a private person who did no self-salesmanship. That was not false modesty. It was just who he was.
He died on October 12, 2011, at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He was 70. He had been ill for some time. The world did not notice until Rob Pike posted a quiet announcement on Google+, and the news spread through the programming community in hushed tones.
No front pages. No tributes from heads of state. No candlelight vigils outside corporate campuses.
The device you are reading this on runs code that traces directly back to what he built. So does the server that delivered it to you. So does the browser or app you opened to get here.
Most people will never know his name.
The ones who built everything you use every day do.
@RapperPandit Why the education is targeted. Paper leaks happened in UPA too. Real reason is, different subjects have original Indian sources added. Even in college, seems foreign Universities stand to lose perception for their Billion dollar revenue from Indian students
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