Chris Christensen christianchristensen

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

Have you ever wondered about the least amount of memory a C or Go program will use on a 64bit Linux machine? Kr & I have, here is the results of our curiosity:

A simple C program:

void
main()
{
  for (;;) {
 }

RESTDesk: First version

Business use case:

Allow app users for our single iPhone app to report bugs/feature requests via a native, in app help desk UI.
Users can report issues for our development team to address.

Non-hypermedia version

https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFIncrementalStore

##Accessing an API using CoreData's NSIncrementalStore https://gist.github.com/1860108 http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsincrementalstore-the-future-of-web-services-in-ios-mac-os-x/

##AppDelegate.m

- (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator

	#!/bin/bash
	COMMIT=$1
	BRANCH=$2

	if [ -z $BRANCH ]; then
	BRANCH="master"
	fi

	perl -ne 'print if ($seen{$_} .= @ARGV) =~ /10$/' \
	<(git rev-list --ancestry-path --oneline $COMMIT..$BRANCH) \

	<?php

	// This is largely stolen from test.php in the Inline_C repo (https://github.com/pear/Inline_C/blob/master/test.php)

	require_once("C.php");
	$function1 = <<<EOF
	PHP_FUNCTION(times)
	{
	long i,j;
	if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "ll", &i,&j) == FAILURE) {


	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Open Standard Media (OSM) Player: PHP Demo</title>
	<script type='text/javascript' src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.js"></script>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/dark-hive/jquery-ui.css">
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/osmplayer/bin/osmplayer.compressed.js"></script>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="/osmplayer/templates/default/css/osmplayer_default.css">
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/osmplayer/templates/default/osmplayer.default.js"></script>

	#!/bin/sh
	# Usage: . testlib.sh
	# Simple shell command language test library.
	#
	# Tests must follow the basic form:
	#
	# begin_test "the thing"
	# (
	# set -e
	# echo "hello"

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# An example hook script to check the commit log message.
	# Called by "git commit" with one argument, the name of the file
	# that has the commit message. The hook should exit with non-zero
	# status after issuing an appropriate message if it wants to stop the
	# commit. The hook is allowed to edit the commit message file.
	#
	# To enable this hook, rename this file to "commit-msg".

	// the smiley program demonstrated by Russ Cox at http://research.swtch.com/acme
	// it shows that the plan9 compiler http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html fully supports UTF-8

	// i tried to compile it with a recent version of the plan9 compiler running on vmware but it failed.
	// it seems that older versions of the compiler supported sizeof(void) == 0
	// anyway you get the idea

	#include <u.h>
	#include <libc.h>