Math Geeks
Duncan said that some members of the audience had been confused, or alienated, or something, at one point during my talk.
"What, when I mentioned the kernel not being able to use real-mode BIOS calls to read the CD-ROM in an El Torito no-emulation mode boot, once the kernel jumps into protected mode?"
"No, they were fine with that part. It was the math."
You see, the version number of our release (1.618), is a math joke -- it's phi, the Golden Ratio. So I'd taken the opportunity to explain this and I had a whole slide discussing some of the properties of the Golden Ratio. It was that slide which Duncan said the audience liked least. Alas! Where have all the math geeks gone?
- Seth Schoen, August 31, 2001
Hey, I thought it was funny.
On a related note, Rael mentione he was disappointed that nobody had noticed his complex number versioning scheme (0+1i, 0+2i, etc.). "Maybe they noticed and just didn't comment," I suggested not very helpfully. Hey, that's what I did.
Friday Night at the Palladium
Microsoft: Microsoft "Palladium" Initiative Technical FAQ. Seth Schoen has some wonderful commentary. Seth: "One of the useful things about this FAQ is that was obviously written by people who were actually working on the project and were trying to provide specific information about it. That's a difference from a lot of corporate and industry-association FAQs, which are sometimes pure spin. This FAQ's tone is a refreshing change."
Today's Tasks
Coding: rss2ical, demo
Coding:
Writing: N3 Spec
Writing: me.aaronsw.com
Maint./Pers.:
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Think/Read: