2010/11/21

what’s an application anyway

November 21st 2010 Posted to Uncategorized

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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