Comments on: Offloading abstraction

By: » An Elaborate Riemann Sums Demo Gyre&Gimble

» An Elaborate Riemann Sums Demo Gyre&Gimble — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:07:16 +0000

[...] that you prepare ahead or even write on the spot. An example of a simple demo is in the post Offloading Abstraction. I will talk about simple demos more in a later [...]

By: SixWingedSeraph

SixWingedSeraph — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:35:50 +0000

I have never heard "contracting out" used in that way. But I am not sure I would call it a bug. It's unavoidable that a word will have different meanings in different specialties. "Pink" means "red" among certain types of people who ride horses, and it means cut in a zigzag to some people who sew. And it seems to me there is another meaning...

By: some guy on the street

some guy on the street — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:54:14 +0000

It's funny: when you wrote "contracting out", I immediately thought of taking a partial trace of some tensor — or, relative to some coordinate system, contracting out some pair of indices. More bugs!