I’d like to have my references in better shape than “vague recollection of code I wrote a decade or two ago” and “vague recollection of decades-old potentially-distorted pop science magazine summary of someone else’s unpublished code” first.
Hmmm… that might be doable. My own code I could probably fix with a rewrite (it was a simple algorithm and even the original BASIC version was a few hundred lines at worst). And as for the latter reference, I found one of the articles which inspired me here:
Looks like this is behind a paywall, though? I seem to be able to access it from work computers (the UTexas library has a subscription to this swath of Scientific American archives) but not home computers.
I’d like to have my references in better shape than “vague recollection of code I wrote a decade or two ago” and “vague recollection of decades-old potentially-distorted pop science magazine summary of someone else’s unpublished code” first.
Hmmm… that might be doable. My own code I could probably fix with a rewrite (it was a simple algorithm and even the original BASIC version was a few hundred lines at worst). And as for the latter reference, I found one of the articles which inspired me here:
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v272/n6/pdf/scientificamerican0695-76.pdf
Looks like this is behind a paywall, though? I seem to be able to access it from work computers (the UTexas library has a subscription to this swath of Scientific American archives) but not home computers.