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Thursday 8 November 2007
mathematical integral equation for web versioning
A bit of levity during the W3C TPAC from the wonderful T.V. Raman, presenting the closing panel of the day, Cracks & Mortars.
Filed under: humor, standards, web design and development, photos, w3c, conferences, nmby
Posted by: Molly | 12:53 pm |
November 8th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Humor so geeky, it requires advanced coursework to grasp. Sure wish I’d had that advanced coursework…
November 8th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I wish I could take classes from Raman. If I’d had had advanced coursework from someone as brilliant and entertaining as him, I think I’d have been a lot better at Ye Olde Maths.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
The joy of programming is that tomorrow that will be a function which I’ll just be able to call without having to worry about the underlying mathematical abstraction which I might have needed coursework to understand.
WebVersion.getNext();
I have a feeling the problem might be with working out its return type (unless it just returns a WebVersion object). If we knew that we’d be very very rich indeed… nope I’m not smart enough to understand the math either but I tried my best to hide it lol.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
The math equation under discussion counts the number of possible
subsets of a set of size N.
Basically, if you:
A) Let W denote the set of all Web resources addressible via
URIS,
B) Realize that there is nothing special about pairwise mashups,
and that it is possible to combine arbitrary subsets of Web
resources where it makes sense
Then you get:
(W Choose 0) + (W Choose 1) + … (W Choose W) = 2^W.
Note that the above is a *huge* number.
What’s more, the moment you’ve instantiated your new mashup based
on what’s available on the Web,
if you deploy your mashup right, it immediately increases the
size of the Web.
And you dont even need to wire up a peice of fruit-cake a la
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy to construct this particular
Total Perspective Vortex!
November 9th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
So Raman, you’re really just saying it’s all 42?
November 10th, 2007 at 3:04 am
Yes, it is 42… or at least divisors of 6 and 7…
;op
December 4th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Please don’t ask him for the meaning for 42.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
December 5th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
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January 18th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
So Raman, you’re really just saying it’s all 42?
March 30th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
thanks
April 7th, 2008 at 4:25 am
it is easy to find it, i think u just search on google or yahoo
April 8th, 2008 at 8:32 am
but, i think it is another thing which you have
April 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Looks very interesting!
Thanks very much.
Regards
April 8th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
i like it
April 8th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
interesting, thanks
April 9th, 2008 at 8:42 am
do you know everything about css?
April 9th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
how can i find everything about css?
April 10th, 2008 at 7:36 am
what do you want to learn about css? we can help easily
April 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
i want learn too, i want start at the beginning of css
April 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Gute Info, danke Molly
April 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
it is good t see u
April 21st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Thanks,very nice blog.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Nice job.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
thats the matter i want to learn
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
ok,thanks
April 24th, 2008 at 8:28 am
hi, umit. how is going on