March 8-10, 2017
Montreal, Canada
Math: Ruining Everything Since Forever
Let's take a tour of what standard math libraries. How are they useful? How are they implemented? Why is Python 3.5 round(2.5) 2.0? Why is (2**100) % 31 different than pow(2, 100, 31)? How does John Carmack's fast inverse square root work?
This is a fun romp into the world of prime numbers, bit twiddling, IEEE 754, and other things your grandparents warned you about.
We'll provide examples in many languages, e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript.
This is a fun romp into the world of prime numbers, bit twiddling, IEEE 754, and other things your grandparents warned you about.
We'll provide examples in many languages, e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript.
Christopher Swenson
Dr. Christopher Swenson is a software engineer, computer scientist, and occasional mathematician. Swenson has been involved in open source since before knowing what open source really was. Swenson likes sorting a lot, and maintains an open source high-performance C sorting library. Swenson has sold their labor to companies big and small, such as Simple, Google, and the US Government, and wrote a book on cryptography. Swenson is one of the organizers of PyDX. Swenson is a cupcake.
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