Some stuff » stephen boyd https://blog.yhuang.org here. Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:50:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 what’s an application anyway https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=289 https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=289#comments Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:18:58 +0000 admin http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=289 Stephen Boyd quips about a power allocation algorithm:

Oh by the way, this is used now, for example, in DSL and it’s used actually everywhere. Okay, and I’m not talking about used by …professors… I’m talking about, it’s used when you use DSL.

Sometimes engineers forget that to a mathematician, an “application” is another theoretical problem … only maybe in physics.

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