tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862692380541042466.post803565020097269831..comments2023-07-16T05:26:27.636-07:00Comments on Padma's Musings: On inception and recursionPadmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01618999515194590513noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862692380541042466.post-29216246970398829382010-09-21T20:26:39.639-07:002010-09-21T20:26:39.639-07:00@Synapse - You may have outgeeked us there :) Inte...@Synapse - You may have outgeeked us there :) Interesting concept.Padmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618999515194590513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862692380541042466.post-58724002501616798712010-09-21T09:41:46.862-07:002010-09-21T09:41:46.862-07:00hate to be super-geeky here but given that the sit...hate to be super-geeky here but given that the situations in the dream worlds (state) persisted across multiple episodes of getting in and out (multiple invocations), I would think that continuations are a better analogy that plain ol' recursion.<br />See:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuationsynapsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00359006743921096730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862692380541042466.post-59647744350667389582010-09-20T09:31:18.296-07:002010-09-20T09:31:18.296-07:00@DI - Haha, hang in there. I promise an upcoming n...@DI - Haha, hang in there. I promise an upcoming non-Engineer update!<br />@Anon - Yes, I vaguely remember some equation between speed and recursion level having been worked out.<br />@Tanz - That's what you get when two engineers get married...Padmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618999515194590513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862692380541042466.post-35824716271355481622010-09-17T10:01:56.439-07:002010-09-17T10:01:56.439-07:00oh god.. its disturbing how Paul and I had a very ...oh god.. its disturbing how Paul and I had a very similar conversation after we saw this movie :-sTanzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04175569332570809651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862692380541042466.post-3153312844310113972010-09-16T13:26:05.001-07:002010-09-16T13:26:05.001-07:00And the best thing in this recursion is that ur ex...And the best thing in this recursion is that ur execution speed increases with every recursive call :) wish this was true in the CS world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862692380541042466.post-53963027453573612392010-09-15T21:53:47.085-07:002010-09-15T21:53:47.085-07:00Hehe, ok I will wait for the non-Engineer update!Hehe, ok I will wait for the non-Engineer update!DIhttp://foreverinbluejeans.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com