Grace Hopper Lecture

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bch · 2017-03 · Recommendation

Hard to believe there are 124 comments here and nobody has brought up Grace Hopper's talk[0][1] yet. With good humour she gives a example of what various devices' latency are, and a simple tool to comprehend the cost and orders of magnitude. [0] short - [LINK] [1] long - [VIDEO]

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adityaathalye · 2026-07 · Reference

Excellent work, glinscott. Thank you for sharing! I am about to send this to all my pals who are parents to schoolkids (um, and also pals who are still, like me, basically a schoolkid :p XD). Building things up from first principles, and ideally also tactile / visceral examples, is my absolute favourite genre of explanations. Alas, a rarefied genre, because it is so much harder to do well (without doing disservice to the learner's intellect and ability) than expert talking to (presumed) expert. So thanks for contributing to it. People like George Polya [0], Richard Feynman [1], Grace Hopper [2] are exemplars of this tradition. [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] (And I too try in my own meagre way through my blog and source code, albeit it's all plain text because visual explainers, animated ones that too are ridiculously difficult. So I have some idea of how much of a labour of love your piece is. <Claps hands, Whistles, Doffs hat>.)

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throw0101a · 2021-12 · Reference

> Light is slow, not exactly 1 foot per nanosecond but it's a reasonable mnemonic. "Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond" is a good illustration of this (segment is only 2m): * [LINK] * [LINK] Full lecture: * [VIDEO]

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