The CEO of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is stepping down.
Hector Ruiz had been just the second person to lead AMD after company founder Jerry Sanders. He'll be replaced by the chip maker's No. 2 executive, Dirk Meyer.
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Member since:2006-05-09
You took offence, didn't you? That proves his point about academia's thin skin, IMO. Unfortunately for the Turing machine cult and the computer science community in general, his ideas are being taken seriously by a lot of people in the industry. Why? Because he is right about parallel programming, that's why. Your point about his use of the term algorithm is lame. It is a matter of definitions. He uses the original definition. Whether or not it's the definition that you choose has little to do with his argument about parallel programming, about which you obviously have nothing interesting to say.
Member since:2005-07-07
"His" point? When people start talking in the 3rd person, you know they're screwed up somehow.
Academics rarely lack thin skin. Quite the contrary if you have ever spent any time in an academic institution surrounded by brilliant and cocky people, you develop "thick" skin very quickly as you struggle to argue your piece while others attempt to pick holes in your arguments.
You criticise the cult of the Turing Machine (lol, first time I've heard that phrase 
) and yet you fail to provide a solid alternative. All the hand waving in your posts (which spend far more time ranting about the Turing machine) than in expounding what this amazing UBM is. Where are the theorems, axioms, proofs, etc. Such things are not just for the stuffy academics, they are necessary if anyone is going to make head or tail of what you are writing about and they are also important for anybody who wishes to implement your ideas. Lacking those, it's just hot air.
I picked out your definition of algorithm. One, misusing commonly understood terms annoys people and two, it makes it a lot harder to follow what you are saying. How are you going to implement a graph without an algorithm (i.e. a sequence of instructions)? Move the bits of information by sheer force of will?
Having your ideas rejected can be a very discouraging experience, especially if you've spent 10 years trying to advocate it. However, in those 10 years it doesn't look like you've developed your COSA idea beyond the vague hand waving that I see on your blog. You might think that you're a Galileo Galilei, but in reality you're coming across more like a Frank Chu.
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2005-07-07
I honestly hope that is not your blog, because that dude over there clearly has no clue about what he's talking about. He doesn't understand the basic premise of an algorithm and takes great offense at anyone pointing it out to him.
His general hostility and disdain for anything in the academic world does him no favours. And ranting and raving about the cult of the Turing machine, while at the same time not understanding what algorithm means ... sorry but such people are not to be taken seriously.