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New comment by strangenessak in "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]"

strangenessak — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:41:57 +0000

We can improve the syntax further

    [butter, sugar, walnuts]
    mix()
    splitIntoPans(pans = 3)
    bake(time = 30, temp = 175)
    cool(time = 5)

Hmm, wait a second.....

New comment by strangenessak in "AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible New Socket"

strangenessak — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:34:57 +0000

> GPUs have hundreds to thousands of cores

That's not exactly true. The GPU equivalent of a CPU core is called a Streaming Multiprocessor (in NVIDIA language), and it's latest GPU, GTX 2080 has 72 of them.

Each of these SMs can run hundreds of threads, but they run the same code in lock-step.

New comment by strangenessak in "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]"

strangenessak — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:19:33 +0000

> personally I find my brain works very much like a Turing Machine

Exactly this. How baking a cake in FP looks like:

* A cake is a hot cake that has been cooled on a damp tea towel, where a hot cake is a prepared cake that has been baked in a preheated oven for 30 minutes.

* A preheated oven is an oven that has been heated to 175 degrees C.

* A prepared cake is batter that has been poured into prepared pans, where batter is mixture that has chopped walnuts stirred in. Where mixture is butter, white sugar and brown sugar that has been creamed in a large bowl until light and fluffy

Taken from here: https://probablydance.com/2016/02/27/functional-programming-...