Comments (13)

1. 

   Eric Meyer says Thursday 8 November 2007 at 14:02

   Humor so geeky, it requires advanced coursework to grasp. Sure wish I’d had that advanced coursework…
2. 

   Molly says Thursday 8 November 2007 at 14:04

   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.
3. 

   Steven Clark says Thursday 8 November 2007 at 20:31

   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.
4. 

   T. V. Raman says Friday 9 November 2007 at 12:25

   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!
5. 

   Molly says Friday 9 November 2007 at 23:09

   So Raman, you’re really just saying it’s all 42?
6. 

   Ms. Jen says Saturday 10 November 2007 at 03:04

   Yes, it is 42… or at least divisors of 6 and 7…

   ;op
7. 

   Jens W says Tuesday 4 December 2007 at 12:32

   Please don’t ask him for the meaning for 42.
   So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 😉
8. 

   dantel says Friday 18 January 2008 at 14:03

   So Raman, you’re really just saying it’s all 42?
9. 

   felsefe says Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 10:45

   Looks very interesting!
   Thanks very much.
   Regards
10. 

    Worker says Monday 14 April 2008 at 13:41

    Gute Info, danke Molly
11. 

    tv izle says Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 12:33

    thanks