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Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...
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On 9/16/2024 11:43 PM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
> Stephen Fuld wrote:
>> On 9/16/2024 4:12 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>
>> snip
>>
>>> With all respect to the regulars here, most people in technical 
>>> Usenet groups are either old, unusually nerdy, or both. 
>>
>> I resemble that remark!  :-)
> 
> Ditto, probably...
> 
> I'm 67 (but not yet retired), I taught myself the Trachtenberg 
> algorithms for mental arithmetic when I was around 12 (was reminded of 
> this last night when I watched Gifted on netflix), I mail ordered what 
> was probably the first Rubik's cube to get to Norway. (And developed 
> three different algorithms to solve it, but I only remember the last one 
> now which I had optimized for simplicity, not speed.)

I do remember when I was a little kid (47 now) trying to teach myself 
some things, I would go:

13 * 7 is:

(7 * 10) + (3 * 7) = 91

It made things faster for me in my mind.


> 
> Those, along with high school chess and orienteering mapping should 
> count as nerdy pursuits, right?
> 
> Winning the County Yo-Yo championship would be less so?
> 
> Regards to all the regulars here, I do consider many of you friends that 
> I just haven't met yet.