Daniel Lemire, professor Université du Québec (TÉLUQ)
blog: https://lemire.me
X: @lemire · GitHub: github.com/lemire
The problem in this business isn't to keep people from stealing your ideas; it's making them steal your ideas.
Howard Aikenquoted by David Patterson, 2017 Turing Award
The industrial revolution was driven by demand for cheap and better clothing for the masses.
In effect, our customer has vanished and been replaced by either the whales or a vacuum. This loss of our customer has resulted in a collection of bad effects. First, there are no “real world” clients to keep us focused.
Michael Stonebraker — “Where We Have Failed”Making Databases Work, 2018
2019
{ "Image": { "Width": 800, "Height": 600, "Title": "View from 15th Floor", "Thumbnail": { "Url": "http://www.example.com/81989943", "Height": 125, "Width": 100 } } }
The scientist builds in order to study; the engineer studies in order to build.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.“The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II,” CACM, 1996
An article about computational science in a scientific publication is not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software development environment and the complete set of instructions which generated the figures.
Jon Claerbout — as recorded by Buckheit and Donoho, 1995
Revealed by use
I never come up with anything by going off to a mountaintop to think. Instead, my ideas come from two sources: talking to real users with real problems and then trying to solve them. This ensures I come up with ideas that somebody cares about and the rubber meets the road and not the sky.
Michael Stonebraker — 2014 Turing Award · Ingres, PostgreSQL, Vertica
For my successful projects, the early indicators were not papers or awards, but non-researchers trying to use our ideas.
David Patterson“How to Build a Bad Research Center,” CACM, 2014
Daniel Lemire · Université du Québec (TÉLUQ)
simdjson · fast_float · simdutf · Roaring Bitmaps