At OOPSLA 2009 Barbara Liskov gave a reprise of her Turing Award talk "The Power of Abstraction". That talk itself is worth watching if you haven't seen it before. At the end of the talk there is an extended Q&A session. One of the persons to ask a question is Philip Wadler who asks Barbara if she was aware of John Reynold's work on the polymorphic lambda calculus and then with his characteristic enthusiasm engages her for a couple of minutes on sealing idea of Morris that she brought up in her talk and how Haskell uses it.
"The Power of Abstraction" at InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/liskov-power-of-abstraction
The Q&A Session starts at about 50:00.
Philip Wadler's question to Barbara starts at about 55:50.
Introducing today's contestants:
- Lauren, a math teacher, has watched over 400 classic movies;
- Sam, a college consultant, uses his dad's old putter; and
- Alan, a software engineering manager, has twins on the way in May. Alan is a one-day champ with winnings of $14,800.
Sam swept all three DDs to maintain command, but Alan finished well and all three players were alive into FJ with Sam at $22,200, Alan with $16,600 and Lauren at $9,600.
DD1 (video) - $1,000 - HAIR'S TO YOU- It doesn't get much higher than this hairstyle, named for a mistress of Louis XV (Sam won $2,000 from his leading score of $3,600.)
DD2 - $800 - HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY - The emperors of China had seasonal homes: Peking means "northern capital" & this city's name means "southern capital" (Sam won $4,000 from his total of $10,800 vs. $4,800 for Lauren.)
DD3 - $2,000 - DR. YES (M.D., NO) - One of the 1st women to get a doctorate in this 2-word field, Barbara Jane Liskov won a Turing Award, the field's highest honor (Sam won $3,000 from his score of $19,200 vs. $10,600 for Alan.)
FJ - WORLD SURNAMES - In 2019, for the first time, this nation allowed for non-gendered last names with the suffix -bur
Everyone was correct on FJ. Sam added $11,001 to win with $33,201.
Streaming struggles: No one knew the character whose real first name is Jane on "Stranger Things" is Eleven.
As we bid farewell to Ken behind the podium (at least for the time being), we welcome executive producer Mike Richards, former host of GSN's The Pyramid, to the Jeopardy! guest host position for two weeks starting Monday.
Correct Qs: DD1 - What is a pompadour? DD2 - What is Nanking? DD3 - What is computer science? FJ - What is Iceland?
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Buenosdillas
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
