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Freitag, 2. Januar 2004

Stephen Wolfram: "Well, in 1940 Atanasoff estimated that with hand calculation it would take at least 125 hours to solve a system of 20 linear equations. And he thought his computer would be able to cut that time down to about 12 hours. Which was pretty impressive. But now sixty-three years have passed. So what's happened? Well, here's the answer: now Mathematica can solve more than a thousand linear equations in a small fraction of a second." — On Scientific Computing.

"[...] we've got to get serious about using languages that really support generality. It's not going to be enough to use Fortran, or some matrix language, to do scientific computing in the future. One needs the paradigm of symbolic programming to represent the kinds of constructs that are relevant for making good models."

"In fact I won't be surprised if we can actually find the ultimate laws of physics--the fundamental rules for the universe--just by a search."

[create Simple Program Models]

[create Symbolic Computation]

2004-01-02-aSecond

Interesting article on IBM's WebFountain project. Annota et impera!

2004-01-02-webFountainhead

If you're into visualization, free up some time and read through the notes of Matthew Chalmers' tutorial from VLDB '99. Excellent. I'm equally convinced that for abstract information display (as opposed to display of physical objects), 3D representations are usually much worse than 2D ones.

www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~matthew/papers/tut99.pdf

2004-01-02-2d

motz 7613 days AGO
if you have time take a look at recer, chalmer's search enginee project; also from '99, i think.

manu-el 7612 days AGO
Re 2D vs 3D.... while I think I agree with you, there IS something special about 3D which 2D will never have.

chris 7611 days AGO
2D sure suffers from a lack of depth.

chris 7611 days AGO
Thanks for the Recer pointer!

martin lindner 7607 days AGO
just a feedback: it struck me to find this link to matthew chalmers, a long-time favorite of mine, in this innovative blogwiki etc.-context. so from now on this will be an important stop in my trips to the blogosphere. best regards.

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