Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as a clear lesson that algebraic properties like associativity unlock parallelism, applicable in any language.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Google TechTalks

Topic

parallel algorithms

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Hi, the author here. One of the hidden messages of the introduction is: watch Guy Steele's talks [1][2][3] if you are interested in data parallelism! These talks are not Julia-specific and the idea is applicable and very useful in any languages. My libraries are heavily …

• I enjoyed this talk along the same lines by Guy Steele, regarding not necessarily forcing a sequential solution to a non-sequential problem: Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.: [VIDEO] Look for steps that are commutative and/or associative in the problem to …

• This type of interviewing style is bullshit. It means the interviewer knows a better solution that is "clever" and expects you to either have the same cleverness epiphany on the spot or to have studied this question. Neither is actually very useful as a hiring …