Talking about Quicksort, John Bentley’s deep dive in Quicksort is quite illuminating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgYAQzg1z8

oh man, google tech talks. what a throwback.

there was a time, 10-15 years ago, when they were super cool. at some point they """diluted""" the technicality content and the nature of guests and they vanished into irrelevance.

much like google doodle

I once emailed Douglas Hofstadter with some of my own ideas after reading his book (GEB) and he actually responded with a long reply.

I did write to him some weeks ago after reading GEB! Didn't get a reply, but also, I don't expect to. I just hope he reads the praise :)

I have done similar style for tech news. Aggravating based on Tags. That way I can read tech news on micro topics. https://embit.ca/ Your feedback is appreciated.

Looking good - keep at it! Use it yourself every day, and iterate it continuously.

This is great. The best article I have read on BWT and experimented was in Dr Dobbs Journal around 1996-97.

Another one you can check out is one I have made for myself and used by friends [1], although only tech news. It also uses more than 100 RSS feeds to aggregate the top 10 news every few hours. Also has tags that can be used to read topic related news.

[1] https://embit.ca

In my case, in fifties, I am still programming away. There is nothing else I can do.

If I remember correctly the Indian Railway Passenger Reservation System was built using DEC VAX/VMS file system

Apologies in advance as I may be saying contrary to the sentiments here against Wikipedia fund raising. I also get the same emails and the banners. I diligently donate what I can. I don’t know where my funds will go. But what I do know is that I use that website practically twenty times a day and get something of value.

In India, mutton is older goat not a sheep. So word mutton means older sheep or goat depending on which country one is taking about.

Mutton in NZ and Oz is older sheep, hoggart is sheep between lamb and mutton in age and lamb is well, the youngest and called lamb.

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