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Mutability could be always used to boost performance on Von Neumann architecture if you know what you are doing.

The Von Neumann architecture is all about state and mutability, and yet FP tries to stay as far as it can from that.

I believe Von Neumann showed that any consistent ordinal utility can be mapped to a cardinal utility.

- John Von Neumann But to your broader point, no, this is not a question of semantics.

All about non-Von Neumann architectures, Lisp and functional programming.

I was slightly curious that Von Neumann appeared at this meeting.

Instead we mostly get more cores, but there's no general solution to the Von Neumann bottleneck, so that's of limited help to the majority of software.

These would basically be microscopic von Neumann probes, presumably with some kind of self-organizing emergent AI to direct their progress, not just spraying random bacteria everywhere and hoping for the best.

I was going to ask about that - the Neumann one was the only one I found interesting, but I could not find an actual download link.

If we one day want to send von Neumann probes out, we'll need to master these fields and none would have uses isolated to space exploration either.

The first important use of the expected utility theory was that of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, who used the assumption of expected utility maximization in their formulation of game theory.

> The Von Neumann architecture is all about state and mutability, and yet FP tries to stay as far as it can from that.

> "we never really understand higher mathematics, we just get used to it" Correct me if I am wrong but I believe this statement is attributed to Von Neumann.

While Gödel never published anything bearing on his independent discovery of indefinability, he did describe it in a 1931 letter to John von Neumann.

It just saddens me that HP borked the whole memristor fabrication issue with their Machine project (a non-von-Neumann architecture would be fun to toy with).

You can only download them using a free ACM account, and even with such account, you can't download most of them (ie, von Neumann's one).