Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-11-14 Thread David Szent-Györgyi
The earlier edition that I saw doesn't give descriptions of the algorithms. Its descriptions of the data structures might be of interest. On Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 9:39:39 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 10:40 AM David Szent-Györgyi > wrote: > >> >> >> On

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-11-04 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 10:40 AM David Szent-Györgyi wrote: > > > On Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 9:22:11 AM UTC-4 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Very large collections are best thought of a graphs, IMO, because there >> are usually many types of connections between them - depending of course on >>

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-11-03 Thread David Szent-Györgyi
On Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 9:22:11 AM UTC-4 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: > Very large collections are best thought of a graphs, IMO, because there > are usually many types of connections between them - depending of course on > the type and intended use of the entries. However, treelike

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-11-01 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 8:22 AM tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: > Very large collections are best thought of a graphs, IMO, because there > are usually many types of connections between them - depending of course on > the type and intended use of the entries. However, treelike *views* into > the data

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-11-01 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 1:51 AM rengel wrote: >> My challenge is to try to understand how one might profitably use very large outlines. I have no clear pictures in mind :-) > What questions do you have to ask to get a clearer picture? Thanks for this comment. xml files, qt outlines and leo's

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-10-31 Thread tbp1...@gmail.com
Very large collections are best thought of a graphs, IMO, because there are usually many types of connections between them - depending of course on the type and intended use of the entries. However, treelike *views* into the data are very often much better for a human to work with. With large

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-10-31 Thread rengel
On Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 12:49:33 PM UTC+2 Edward K. Ream wrote: > My challenge is to try to understand how one might profitably use very > large outlines. I have no clear pictures in mind :-) > > Some things come to my mind: What questions do you have to ask to get a clearer

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-10-30 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 12:17 AM rengel wrote: > Addendum > This may help: > > > https://thenewstack.io/why-erlang-joe-armstrongs-legacy-of-fault-tolerant-computing/ > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888497 > Thanks for these links. I'll take a look. To be clear, right now I'm not

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-10-29 Thread rengel
Addendum This may help: https://thenewstack.io/why-erlang-joe-armstrongs-legacy-of-fault-tolerant-computing/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888497 On Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 5:25:06 AM UTC+2 rengel wrote: > > > On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 2:12:30 PM UTC+2 Edward K. Ream

Re: Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-10-29 Thread rengel
On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 2:12:30 PM UTC+2 Edward K. Ream wrote: ... > *Speed* > > One of Leo's "grand challenges" is to re-imagine Leo with an outline > containing millions of nodes. Whether this challenge even makes sense is an > open question. But one thing is clear: a speedup

Personal take-aways from a rust video

2021-10-27 Thread Edward K. Ream
For the past several days I have been looking for my next project. Here, I'll briefly discuss the video Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years . The speaker is a member of rust's core development team at mozilla. I highly recommend the first