Software Entomologist
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"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." — Arthur C. Clarke
The Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing in Astrophysics [PDF] arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11295v1.p…
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform." — Ada Lovelace
"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers." — Steven Levy
The 9 Deep Learning Papers You Need To Know About adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-…
Letters between John Backus and Edsger Dijkstra, 1979 medium.com/@acidflask/this-g…
Falsehoods programmers believe about time infiniteundo.com/post/253269…
Actors: A model of concurrent computation in distributed systems, G. Agha, 1985 [PDF] apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA15…
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning (2012) [PDF] homes.cs.washington.edu/~ped…
"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." — Douglas Hofstadter
"Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer." — Donald Knuth