Oh yes. I just mentioned the math courses. Not the computer ones. Most of the first year computer stuff was all done in APL. Not exactly a database or text processing language so you can see how learning about random numbers and some of the other stuff can have labs attached.
One course, third year I think was a telcom course. This was before the internet. There were 5 labs over the 4 month term done in 5 different programming languages. Then the compiler writing course. Taught by Chris Thompson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLACC The FLACC implementation of ALGOL-68 was written in 370 assembler and Chris was an great prof. It was an amazing 4 years. I wrote an RTOS for an Electrical Engineering Grad Project course. Or then there was the MC6800 emulator written in IBM370 assembler during the assembler programming course. I'll bet nowadays they don't even teach an assembler for an entire term. How many people look at what the compiler generates? Very important when writing for an M9S12 series processor with 512K flash, 32K ram but only 64K addressing. John Dammeyer. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] > Sent: August-19-20 11:23 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT: Synchronised motion using RS485/CAN bus motors > > I'll bet that on top of the calculus and linear algebra they also covered > discrete mathematics and some of the nifty things Allen Turning and John > Von Neuman discovered about if machines will halt or not and the > relationship between sets of grammars and sets of machines and you proved > that a bubble sort has to result in the correct order of numbers in a list > and that the traveling salesman problem was NP-complete. I bet you really > do remember the Prime Factor Theorem (every integer is the product of a > unique set of primes) > > I also found I forgot most of this but I got interested in the > current (this century's) version of AI and robotics and found I needed to > relearn linear algebra and calculus and some statistics. I did a few of > the Kahn Academy online courses. I recommend it. He teaches at the level > you really need to know, slightly below the level at a place like UCLA. > For years this stuff was not relevant but now AI has become a big linear > algebra-based number cruncher. > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 7:15 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > wrote: > > > My computer science degree required 4 terms of calculus, 2 terms of linear > > algebra, 2 terms of differential equations, 4 terms of physics and 2 terms > > of statistics. I think that was all of it. I also took a nuclear physics > > course that was quite interesting. The diff equations were part of the > > electrical engineering minor. > > > > Didn't really do much with astronomy so I really don't quite get how they > > figured out the distance to the sun. But I thought it was interesting as > > is the book 'sapiens'. > > https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095 > > > > Oh and I remember almost none of all that math. Too long ago. > > > > John Dammeyer > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: August-19-20 6:59 PM > > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT: Synchronised motion using RS485/CAN bus > > motors > > > > > > Yes, If this is a theoretical discussion then at the end of all the > > chains > > > of reasoning it all comes to "mutually observed event". If this is just > > > engineering then it comes down to "the delay is so fast no one cares". > > > - > > > My background is computer science. Computer science is a mash-up of > > > mathematical theory and practical engineering. In some classes we did > > > proofs and others we built stuff. It is kind of fun to look both ways. > > > > > > A real disaster happened at TRW some years back where us poor working > > > minions were required to do proofs on the stuff we were building. > > Looking > > > both ways at the same time did not work. > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:10 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: John Dammeyer [mailto:jo...@autoartisans.com] > > > > > I was just reading a few weeks ago in the book "Sapiens" that the > > early > > > > explorers set up an experiment where they would observe an > > > > > astronomical event from both England and the South Pacific. > > Something > > > > about either time or position. > > > > > > > > > > I think it was Cook who was exploring at that point. I'll have to > > dig > > > > through to see exactly what it was. > > > > > > > > > > Still quite something to plan on observing something that will take > > you > > > > a year or more before you are even there to do the observing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Chapter 15, The marriage of science and empire. James Cook was > > > > commissioned to take astronomers and others to the pacific to be there > > in > > > > 1769 to measure the duration of the transit that Venus makes across the > > > > sun. Apparently measured from different places on earth results in > > simple > > > > trigonometry to determine the distance of the earth from the sun. > > > > > > > > Who knew. > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Chris Albertson > > > Redondo Beach, California > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
