Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ [longnow.org]
2016-11-05 02:52
What happens when you hire a famous physicist to work on your super parallel computer, as a summer intern no less?
Feynman’s router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as “the average number of 1 bits in a message address.” I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of “the number of 1’s” with respect to time.