Software Scheduling vs Fractal Dimension
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Try it yourself, the google query (( "software scheduling" "fractal dimension" )) fetches only one hit, which seems irrelevant, in other words apparently no one else On Earth has seen fit to remark on this analogy, if you want to call it an analogy, I think it is more direct than that. Of course fractal dimension is something like, if you go between two points on the coast, and you look at the wiggles of the coastline in more detail, how much longer does the distance get as you look at ever-finer levels of detail. In coding, a wall can be 6 meters away, but to get there you may need to take steps in millimeters or even finer, so to speak. I am so often amazed at how many lines I write to solve what was at the conceptual level a fairly simple thing. Seems clear to me :). Is this token year-end-musing more nicely remarked on elsewhere ?
pg--az
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Try it yourself, the google query (( "software scheduling" "fractal dimension" )) fetches only one hit, which seems irrelevant, in other words apparently no one else On Earth has seen fit to remark on this analogy, if you want to call it an analogy, I think it is more direct than that. Of course fractal dimension is something like, if you go between two points on the coast, and you look at the wiggles of the coastline in more detail, how much longer does the distance get as you look at ever-finer levels of detail. In coding, a wall can be 6 meters away, but to get there you may need to take steps in millimeters or even finer, so to speak. I am so often amazed at how many lines I write to solve what was at the conceptual level a fairly simple thing. Seems clear to me :). Is this token year-end-musing more nicely remarked on elsewhere ?
pg--az
pg--az wrote:
(( "software scheduling" "fractal dimension" ))
I think the analogy is incorrect. A fractal is recursive and indistinguishable at different resolutions, whereas software scheduling and algorithms is simply a drill down and, if it's indistinguishable at different depths, well then, you're definitely doing something wrong! Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Try it yourself, the google query (( "software scheduling" "fractal dimension" )) fetches only one hit, which seems irrelevant, in other words apparently no one else On Earth has seen fit to remark on this analogy, if you want to call it an analogy, I think it is more direct than that. Of course fractal dimension is something like, if you go between two points on the coast, and you look at the wiggles of the coastline in more detail, how much longer does the distance get as you look at ever-finer levels of detail. In coding, a wall can be 6 meters away, but to get there you may need to take steps in millimeters or even finer, so to speak. I am so often amazed at how many lines I write to solve what was at the conceptual level a fairly simple thing. Seems clear to me :). Is this token year-end-musing more nicely remarked on elsewhere ?
pg--az
pg--az wrote:
in other words apparently no one else On Earth has seen fit to remark on this analogy
Google is only a small percentage of the shared knowledge available 'On Earth'. Your local library is full of stuff not available on the internet. Cheers, drew.
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pg--az wrote:
in other words apparently no one else On Earth has seen fit to remark on this analogy
Google is only a small percentage of the shared knowledge available 'On Earth'. Your local library is full of stuff not available on the internet. Cheers, drew.
Drew Stainton wrote:
Your local library is full of stuff not available on the internet.
Yup - That's why Carnegie built all those libraries. And I'm rather proud to have a library card for the first ever library that was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie. I have pictures of that library on Flickr.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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Drew Stainton wrote:
Your local library is full of stuff not available on the internet.
Yup - That's why Carnegie built all those libraries. And I'm rather proud to have a library card for the first ever library that was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie. I have pictures of that library on Flickr.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Carnegie built all those libraries
My first paying job was at the main branch of our county library, which was still in the old Carnegie building at the time. While I worked there in the mid to late 70's, we moved the library into the new, now current building. The old building was turned into a private residence for a number of years, but is presently vacant. There was some talk at one time of turning it into a law library. The exterior is still pretty attractive (the word 'edifice' comes to mind), although I imagine the interior isn't in very good shape (the plaster was decaying when we moved the library 30 years ago).
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pg--az wrote:
(( "software scheduling" "fractal dimension" ))
I think the analogy is incorrect. A fractal is recursive and indistinguishable at different resolutions, whereas software scheduling and algorithms is simply a drill down and, if it's indistinguishable at different depths, well then, you're definitely doing something wrong! Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Drew Stainton wrote:
Your local library is full of stuff not available on the internet.
Yup - That's why Carnegie built all those libraries. And I'm rather proud to have a library card for the first ever library that was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie. I have pictures of that library on Flickr.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Hah! Didn't think you could resist posting after your last post for 2006. :laugh:
What's in a sig? This statement is false. Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder
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Hah! Didn't think you could resist posting after your last post for 2006. :laugh:
What's in a sig? This statement is false. Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder
Chris S Kaiser wrote:
Hah! Didn't think you could resist posting after your last post for 2006.
I didn't. It is a bit of an erroneous assumption to think that we all live in the Americas. That post was made a number of hours in to 2007 in my timezone.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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Chris S Kaiser wrote:
Hah! Didn't think you could resist posting after your last post for 2006.
I didn't. It is a bit of an erroneous assumption to think that we all live in the Americas. That post was made a number of hours in to 2007 in my timezone.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Touche!:doh:
What's in a sig? This statement is false. Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder