Suppose you have an array of floating point numbers with each index into the array being an id number corresponding to some external data structure. You want to sort this array, but in doing so you would destroy the references to the id numbers, since the indexes of the array would no longer correspond to [...]
Archive for 18 September 2007
Merge sort fun
Posted: 18 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: algorithms, code, java, memory, merge sort, programming, sort
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:-) x 25
Posted: 18 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: artificial intelligence, cmu, knowledge base, knowledge representation, lti, professors, scone, smiley, tg
A professor in my department (primarily affiliated with the LTI and the CSD, but also the MLD and HCII) invented the smiley 25 years ago on a bboard here at CMU. The fateful message that spawned the smiley is reproduced below [source]: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> [...]
Pay-to-view? That’s so web 1.0
Posted: 18 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: 9/11, media, new york times, pay for content, science magazines, wall street journal, web, web 1.0
As someone who has been getting the New York Times headlines by email everyday since 9/11, the announcement to get rid of their archaic pay-to-view Times Select service is great news. Duncan Riley over at TechCrunch thinks this will herald the end of an age when content wasn’t free (aka Web 1.0). The Wall Street [...]
