Reverse Logic

Posted by Lyrric on Sunday August 02, 2015 @12:55PM
from the unabridged.merriam-webster.com dept.

http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/blog/2015/07/reverse-logic/

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Re:Reverse Logic by ams6110 on Sunday August 02, 2015 @06:04PM (#9992658)

For increased accuracy, each page was keyed by two different typists in order to identify and correct discrepancies

This was a common practice used for systems that took data entry via punch cards as well (during the punch-card era).

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Re:Reverse Logic by jsprogrammer on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:05AM (#9993729)

Modern practice for things that undergo a D-A-D transition is to include a secondary (often lossy compressed) representation that can be used to validate that the data was correctly replicated.

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Re:Reverse Logic by mdonahoe on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:03AM (#9994558)

I love that we can now achieve the same result with a single line of code

    >>> for backword in sorted(line[::-1].strip() for line in file('/usr/share/dict/words')): print backword[::-1]

and I wonder what ideas are tedious now that will be similarly trivial 80 years from now... probably biological ones

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