"For those of you who think you have already seen unums, this is a different approach. Every one of the slides here is completely new and has not been presented before the Multicore 2016 conference [in Wgtn, NZ]."

Here is the link as promised to the new presentation by John Gustafson:
http://www.johngustafson.net/unums.html


I strongly recommend that you download the presentation [Powerpoint, 35 pages] as there are lots of Notes with the presentation.

Note that the previous thread re Unums, can be found here:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/quzsjahniokjotvtaxnu@forum.dlang.org


I welcome any feedback, especially from Walter or Andrei.


cheers Nick

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 05:08:13 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> Here is the link as promised to the new presentation by John Gustafson:
> http://www.johngustafson.net/unums.html
>
>
> I strongly recommend that you download the presentation [Powerpoint, 35 pages] as there are lots of Notes with the presentation.
>

This looks way better than the previous iteration. Waiting for more written material. Definately worth a second look.

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 11:34:25 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 05:08:13 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>> Here is the link as promised to the new presentation by John Gustafson:
>> http://www.johngustafson.net/unums.html
>>
>>
>> I strongly recommend that you download the presentation [Powerpoint, 35 pages] as there are lots of Notes with the presentation.
>>
>
> This looks way better than the previous iteration. Waiting for more written material. Definately worth a second look.

PDF link: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/02/22/multicore2016-jlg/multicore2016-jlg.pdf

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 13:11:47 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 11:34:25 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> PDF link: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/02/22/multicore2016-jlg/multicore2016-jlg.pdf

Just a heads up:

Unfortunately there's an issue with the fonts as well as some typos in this.

Ex: Slide 3 the infinity and minus signs don't show up in symbol font on my PC (Win7 w/ Office 2013). This reoccurs for every copy of the diagram. Slide 12, 0101 is repeated. The top one should actually be 0111 I believe (this error also repeats).

Aside from that, the notes were super useful, not sure if you could add them in there.

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 05:08:13 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> "For those of you who think you have already seen unums, this is a different approach. Every one of the slides here is completely new and has not been presented before the Multicore 2016 conference [in Wgtn, NZ]."
>
> Here is the link as promised to the new presentation by John Gustafson:
> http://www.johngustafson.net/unums.html
>
>
> I strongly recommend that you download the presentation [Powerpoint, 35 pages] as there are lots of Notes with the presentation.
>
> Note that the previous thread re Unums, can be found here:
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/quzsjahniokjotvtaxnu@forum.dlang.org
>
>
> I welcome any feedback, especially from Walter or Andrei.
>
>
> cheers Nick

"Reverse all bits but the first one and add 1, to reciprocate. Works without exception. +1 and –1 do not change."

There's magic out there ;)

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 17:42:07 UTC, Basile Burg wrote:
>
> "Reverse all bits but the first one and add 1, to reciprocate. Works without exception. +1 and –1 do not change."
>
> There's magic out there ;)

What I don't get is: is there an exposant anymore? I don't see any mention of it.

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 17:15:54 UTC, Charles wrote:
> On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 13:11:47 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:

 Slide 12, 0101 is repeated. The top
> one should actually be 0111 I believe (this error also repeats).

I will check with John re this error.

>
> Aside from that, the notes were super useful, not sure if you could add them in there.

Its likely that we can not add the Notes to the PDF, which is why I recommended to everyone, to download the presentation, and read it via Powerpoint, then you can see all the Notes.

Nick

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 21:27:31 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 17:15:54 UTC, Charles wrote:
>> On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 13:11:47 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>
>  Slide 12, 0101 is repeated. The top
>> one should actually be 0111 I believe (this error also repeats).
>
> I will check with John re this error.
>
>>
>> Aside from that, the notes were super useful, not sure if you could add them in there.
>
> Its likely that we can not add the Notes to the PDF, which is why I recommended to everyone, to download the presentation, and read it via Powerpoint, then you can see all the Notes.
>
> Nick

I saw you looking for heavy math users. I work with quite a few actuaries, but I probably wouldn't be able to convince them to use anything if there wasn't a way to use it with either SAS or R. SAS can import C functions, but that's about it in terms of interop.

If you don't find people with D, this might be an opportunity.

On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 01:08:38 UTC, Charles wrote:
> On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 21:27:31 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>> On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 17:15:54 UTC, Charles wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>>  Slide 12, 0101 is repeated. The top
>>> [...]
>>
>> I will check with John re this error.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Its likely that we can not add the Notes to the PDF, which is why I recommended to everyone, to download the presentation, and read it via Powerpoint, then you can see all the Notes.
>>
>> Nick
>
> I saw you looking for heavy math users. I work with quite a few actuaries, but I probably wouldn't be able to convince them to use anything if there wasn't a way to use it with either SAS or R. SAS can import C functions, but that's about it in terms of interop.
>
> If you don't find people with D, this might be an opportunity.

There is https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdinline2

On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 08:49:50 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> I saw you looking for heavy math users. I work with quite a few actuaries, but I probably wouldn't be able to convince them to use anything if there wasn't a way to use it with either SAS or R. SAS can import C functions, but that's about it in terms of interop.
>>
>> If you don't find people with D, this might be an opportunity.
>
> There is https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdinline2

This seems to be the opposite of what I'd need unfortunately. The likelihood of convincing them to use D is probably zero. In general, they're closer to mathematicians then programmers.