[FRIAM] Acronyms
thompnickson2 at gmail.com
thompnickson2 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 18:36:28 EST 2021
Isn't clarity TO THE COMPUTER what rigor is?
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Nick Thompson
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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No, not clear, rigorous. The thread on the performance of the inverse square root and how optimization compiles to different execution makes that point well. The only trick is how to trade clarity for rigor when popularizing.
On 1/25/21 3:30 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Geez, barry. And I thought I had made it up. I was just teasing. In
> my line of work (I think of myself ultimately as a writer) the burden of proof is always with the generator of the text. I assume that nobody has time to mess with acronyms. If I want to be understood, I have to be clear. I assume it’s the same with programming. TRIAR.
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