Srikumar Subramanian

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I got curious about Daniel Hillis’ 61-comparator network for 16-sorting which he arrived at through genetic evolution with co-evolving “parasites” that track failure cases alongside the evolving network. In particular, I was curious about his claim that the result is “not understandable”. I’m ok with a claim of “I…

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Bye Bye JavaScript Promises

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In my previous post , I explored how programming with promises can be made close to programming with values. After some more work on it, and some learning from bluebird , I came to conclude that my brain doesn’t think well with promises. So I wrote a macro for Javascript that expands “tasks” into async state machines…