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In 1960, the famed computer scientist Don Knuth wrote a technical paper in which he considered an integer programming model for minimizing memory access latency of an IBM 650. I've included a screenshot of the 51 variable, 43 constraint problem at the end of this post. Prof Knuth describes the problem and his attempts to…
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Transcript Note: This podcast is designed to be heard. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emphasis that’s not on the page Introduction Adam:Hello and welcome to CoRecursive. I’m Adam Gordon Bell. Each episode of CoRecursive, someone shares the fascinating story behind some piece of software being built. On April 1st, 2014, an open source maintainer got an email from Google about a security issue, and this was not an April Fool’s joke. This was [inaudible 00:00:21] and the project was OpenSSL. 17% of the world’s web servers were affected, ...