9 Jul
2007
9 Jul
'07
6:10 a.m.
On 15:42 Mon 09 Jul , Thomas Conway wrote:
I don't know if you saw the following linked off /.
I read that earlier and his comments, such as "This concept of 'process expression' is, he says, a common thread running through the various disciplines of computer science", made me think of arrows and category theory. And I wonder what kind of aberration a monte-carlo algorithm would be if this excerpt is to be taken seriously: "Any program utilising random input to carry out its process, such...is not an algorithm." Cheers, Asumu Takikawa