{"id":289,"date":"2010-11-21T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T19:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=289"},"modified":"2010-11-21T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T19:24:41","slug":"whats-an-application-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s an application anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Boyd quips about a power allocation algorithm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh by the way, this is used now, for example, in DSL and it&#8217;s used actually <u>everywhere<\/u>. Okay, and I&#8217;m not talking about used by &#8230;professors&#8230; I&#8217;m talking about, it&#8217;s used when you use DSL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes engineers forget that to a mathematician, an &#8220;application&#8221; is another theoretical problem &#8230; only maybe in physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Boyd quips about a power allocation algorithm: Oh by the way, this is used now, for example, in DSL and it&#8217;s used actually everywhere. Okay, and I&#8217;m not talking about used by &#8230;professors&#8230; I&#8217;m talking about, it&#8217;s used when you use DSL. Sometimes engineers forget that to a mathematician, an &#8220;application&#8221; is another theoretical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,168,102,174,172,173,176,169,171,170],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-allocation","tag-allocation-algorithm","tag-application","tag-dsl","tag-mathematician","tag-physics","tag-power","tag-power-allocation","tag-stephen-boyd","tag-theoretical-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}