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Let's discuss computer science

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 0:36

It's been a long time since we last talked about this.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 0:37

I'm sorry. This is a programming board! Please take your academic elitist attitude back to hacker news.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 0:50

Hay there, so I heard Turing lambda and the P=NP halting problem was all the rage?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 1:05

This topic's entertainment complexity is O(1/N) where N is number of posts made so far.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 1:08

>>4
That simplifies to O(1). Which means this thread is not very entertaining and it will never be.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 1:24

Why do they call it computer "science" anyway?  It always struck me more as computer math and computer set theory.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 1:26

>>6
That's a good question, what sort of hypothesis do they test anyway?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 1:37

"For all p in the set X such that M is a turing machine with a program R than can determine if a*** Error: stack overflow."

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 1:55

>>7
It is not uncommon to run empirical tests to measure hypothesized behaviour of chaotic systems like processes and networks.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 2:53

>>8
You stack is insufficient or your output is too slow. You decide.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 7:03

>>5
So far so good.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 8:47

I'd like to welcome you to this course on Computer Science. Actually that's a terrible way to start. Computer science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it's not a science. It might be engineering or it might be art. We'll actually see that computer so-called science actually has a lot in common with magic. We will see that in this course. So it's not a science. It's also not really very much about computers. And it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators. And biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes. And it's not about computers in the same sense that geometry is not really about using a surveying instruments.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 9:07

So procedures are the spells if you like that control these magical spirits that are the processes.

The Sussman produced a wand and waved it in the air, muttering to himself. A bright flash of light filled the room, and a stream of glowing parentheses shot out the end of the wand, dissappearing into the air. The students applauded loudly.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 10:30

What the author was really trying to say
The Sussman produced a wang and waved it in the air, muttering to himself. A bright flash of light filled the room, and a stream of glowing parentheses shot out the end of the wang, disappearing into the air. The students moaned loudly.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 10:37

>>2
Hacker news is more like "If we listen to everything Paul Graham says, we'll become rich like him!"

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 12:03

>>14
This reminds me of the Harry Potter s/wand/wang/.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 13:21

I always figured the Sussman sounded similar to Snape.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 13:51

>>17
I've seen Harry Potters, but not the lectures

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 15:59

>>18
He may very well have seen the lectures, but not the Harry Potter movies. It's entirely possible that he assigns voices to his book characters.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-25 16:10

>>16
Funny you should say that cuz that's what gave me the idea to do it

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-15 5:42

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