Re: [math-fun] Yogi Berra, computer scientist, dead at 90
I conclude that Yogi Berra's likely cause of death was amphibolism. Leo On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:08:41 -0700, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
On O(n) constants:
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." [Take that, Don Knuth!]
On cut-and-choose:
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six"
On quantum computation:
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
On debugging:
"You can observe a lot by watching."
On speculative execution & the failure of IBM's Model 91:
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
On load balancing:
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
On the Halting Problem:
"It ain't over till it's over."
On self-referential statements:
"I never said most of the things I said." [Take that!, Bertrand Russell!]
On memory caches' ability to reduce latency:
"The future ain’t what it used to be."
On network synchronization:
"It gets late early out here."
On neural network convergence:
"If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
On Google's success:
"I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
On the security of multiparty cryptographic protocols:
"Never answer an anonymous letter."
On the difference between "wall clock time" and "CPU time":
"I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four."
On recursive sorting algorithms & dynamic programming:
"The lousy teams are good this year"
On cryptographic zero-knowledge protocols:
"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
On cache misses:
"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
On Turing Machine diagonalization:
"I knew the record would stand until it was broken."
On parallel system synchronization deadlock:
"You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours."
Er ... "Amphibolism is the integration of catabolism(complex break down into small molecules) and anabolism(complex synthesized from small)." [www.answers.com] ? I reckon he probably just died laughing ... By the way, did he have athletics (emeritus) tenure? WFL On 9/23/15, Leo Broukhis <leob@mailcom.com> wrote:
I conclude that Yogi Berra's likely cause of death was amphibolism.
Leo
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:08:41 -0700, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
On O(n) constants:
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." [Take that, Don Knuth!]
On cut-and-choose:
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six"
On quantum computation:
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
On debugging:
"You can observe a lot by watching."
On speculative execution & the failure of IBM's Model 91:
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
On load balancing:
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
On the Halting Problem:
"It ain't over till it's over."
On self-referential statements:
"I never said most of the things I said." [Take that!, Bertrand Russell!]
On memory caches' ability to reduce latency:
"The future ain’t what it used to be."
On network synchronization:
"It gets late early out here."
On neural network convergence:
"If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
On Google's success:
"I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
On the security of multiparty cryptographic protocols:
"Never answer an anonymous letter."
On the difference between "wall clock time" and "CPU time":
"I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four."
On recursive sorting algorithms & dynamic programming:
"The lousy teams are good this year"
On cryptographic zero-knowledge protocols:
"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
On cache misses:
"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
On Turing Machine diagonalization:
"I knew the record would stand until it was broken."
On parallel system synchronization deadlock:
"You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours."
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