Monday, August 17, 2015

Intelligent Octopus

Article in nature. No wonder. They did invent deodorant.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

FORTRAN founding team

Someone posted the 2007 obituary of John W. Backus on reddit recently. I was introduced to Fortran in 2009 spring semester, almost two years after. One bit I found interesting was the team which created FORTRAN. As per the article, it consisted of:

...included a crystallographer, a cryptographer, a chess wizard, an employee on loan from United Aircraft, a researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a young woman who joined the project straight out of Vassar College...


Thursday, January 08, 2015

PK highly overrated

 PK is highly overrated. A very nice subjected dealt tritely. Does not deserve all the praise. Almost everything, be it acting or direction or locations or story, appears to be thought of in one sitting. It is as if people sat and implemented first thought which came to them. Will add.