Gosperism /gos'p*r-izm/ n.
A hack, invention, or
saying due to elder days arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper.
This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them.
Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms; see also
life.
A hack, invention, or
saying due to elder days arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper.
This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them.
Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms; see also
life.
Related:
- Gosperism: /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to
arch-hacker R.
William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own... - HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n.
MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
A legendary collection of neat mathematical and... - elder days n.
The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly,
pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS ARPANET... - elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly,
pre-1980); the era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}... - life n.
1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton
Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner
("Scientific American",
October 1970); the game's popularity had to wait... - smoking clover: [ITS] n. A {display hack} originally due to
Bill Gosper.
Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor... - life: n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton
Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner
("Scientific American",
October 1970); the game's popularity had to wait... - smoking clover n.
[ITS] A display hack originally
due to Bill Gosper.
Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor... - cycle
1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every
hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as
a "cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so many...
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Ancient techspeak term referring to slow,
cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of... - guru meditation n.
Amiga equivalent of `panic' in Unix
(sometimes just called a `guru' or `guru event').
When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the... - SED /S-E-D/ n.
[TMRC, from `Light-Emitting Diode']
Smoke-emitting diode.
A friode that lost the war. See also LER... - psyton /si:'ton/ n.
[TMRC] The elementary particle
carrying the sinister force.
The probability of a process losing is proportional... - Life is hard prov.
[XEROX PARC] This phrase has two
possible interpretations:
(1) "While your suggestion may have some merit,...
