[FoRK] Git is the new UNIX (?)

[Stephen D. Williams]

Very cool. I absolutely love these kinds of apparent jumps in concepts.
Now, if I could find a deeper discussion of the architecture that 
matches his assertions.

My robotics class has some cool math so far, but Probabilistic Reasoning 
is uber cool (and uber freaking hard to keep up with, and it's not just 
me). Of course, the fact that Stanford lost my December payment and 
forced me to start class at the second week may have something to do 
with that.

Did you know that Turbo Codes were a reinvention of a discarded 
approximate reasoning algorithm, Loopy Belief Propagation, that has 
since become hot because of the practical success of Turbo Codes?? I 
implement it tomorrow in Matlab. Fun, eh?

I have already cured my uncomfortableness with tortured math notations, 
proof construction, linear algebra / matrix math, ...

sdw

Jeff Bone wrote:
>
> Check this out:
>
> http://www.advogato.org/person/apenwarr/diary/371.html
>
> -- 
>
> Nb., git also captures a lot of the fundamental ideas that were the 
> genesis of e.g. Deepfile. I've been hip to this "immutable content 
> blobs and hashes" notion of primitive filesystem concepts for a long 
> time, at least since Andy Tannenbaum's Amoeba's filesystem, the 
> "Bullet Filesystem," was based on them. (Never mind the reinforcement 
> from Oceanstore and, to a lesser block-level degree, Venti.) (But what 
> about arbitrary file metadata, I wonder...?)
>
> I hadn't really considered git in this light, though. Frankly I'd sort 
> of avoided it, given its reputation for quirkiness.
>
> Will have to go take another look, I guess...
>
>
> jb
>
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