Author: Oliver Y.
Date: 04:16:39 11/09/98
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I would just like to say that I enjoy the simple fact that you bothered to reply to my post. Simple pleasures like this--truly informed selfless, busy people taking the time to inform--brings me back as often as I have the time. It's a mystery to me why people can't get along when they are thousands of miles apart. All of you that are grumpy, "can't we all get along?" I would like to add my name to those who will stay in CCC. How about y'all come to my town for a nice steak dinner? Oliver On November 07, 1998 at 09:59:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 07, 1998 at 06:35:21, Oliver Y. wrote: > >>21 years assumes a continuous exponential rate of improvement. >>It does not consider S. Kuhn's observations re discovery. >>Moreover, the sources of quantum changes are also increasing, ever interacting. >>(I.e., Biological, quantum computing) >>Perhaps Mark Young's guess is the most plausible, though Mr. Hyatt has provided >>the very useful baseline. >> >>I would love to know how much of a return would be obtained if these great >>programmers pooled their resources without reservation. >>How would the rate of improvement change? >> >>My guess is less than a factor of n, where n is the number of cooperators. > > >Speaking for myself, progress was *much* faster back in the days of the annual >ACM events... because each year we all gathered around a table during the >tournament and talked about things we'd tried over the past year. There's >much less of that today, although places like CCC and r.g.c.c still keep the >idea alive.
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