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From: Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no>
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Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:43:22 +0200
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Stephen Fuld wrote:
> On 9/16/2024 4:12 AM, David Brown wrote:
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>> With all respect to the regulars here, most people in technical Usenet=
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>> groups are either old, unusually nerdy, or both.=20
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> I resemble that remark!=C2=A0 :-)

Ditto, probably...

I'm 67 (but not yet retired), I taught myself the Trachtenberg=20
algorithms for mental arithmetic when I was around 12 (was reminded of=20
this last night when I watched Gifted on netflix), I mail ordered what=20
was probably the first Rubik's cube to get to Norway. (And developed=20
three different algorithms to solve it, but I only remember the last one =

now which I had optimized for simplicity, not speed.)

Those, along with high school chess and orienteering mapping should=20
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.

Terje


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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"