murr | 16 years ago | on: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
I always thought that Focault's Pendulum was a kind of highbrow Illuminatus! Trilogy
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murr | 17 years ago | on: Open Letter from Feng-hsiung Hsu, one of the main programmers of Deep Blue
I agree with most of this, but one should not overestimate the impact of general hardware progress since 1997. Each extra ply takes an order of magnitude more computation, and the state of the art in endgame tablebases has "only" progressed from 5 pieces (e.g. KBB vs. KN) to six pieces.
murr | 17 years ago | on: E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise
I would think that this is parable rather than history. Some of the giveaways are the dig at "operational research" and the mention of the DoD (which a meticulous writer like EWD would have known did not exist until much later).
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