Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Math for Computer Science" video.

  1. I wonder, though: some aspects of the tools can’t possibly make sense to someone who doesn’t appreciate the mathematical structures involved. Like the fact that the Git version-control system structures the commit history as a directed acyclic graph.
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  2. 🏆💯👏 What disappoints me about this video is he completely fails to mention them!
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  3. Quote from the preface: “When DEK taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft. He announced that, contrary to the expectations of some of his colleagues, he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, nor Stone’s Embedding Theorem, nor even the Stone-Tech compactification. (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.)”
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  4. 5:06 So, the common bracketing symbols for “floor” and “ceiling” were invented by the APL guy. Why am I not surprised?
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  5. You are Jaromil and I claim my £5.
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  6. Donald Knuth is well aware of that, and he did something about it.
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