Suraj

“I felt exactly as you did - that we reflect each other - but i didn't have the words to express it. That's the difference between and artist and a viewer, between a writer and reader.”
― Narayan Wagle, Palpasa Café

“iterative and concurrent. An iterative server iterates through the following steps: I1. Wait for a client request to arrive. I2. Process the client request. I3. Send the response back to the client that sent the request. I4. Go back to step I1. The problem with an iterative server occurs when step I2 takes a long time. During this time no other clients are serviced. A concurrent server, on the other hand, performs the following steps: C1. Wait for a client request to arrive. C2. Start a new server instance to handle this client’s request. This may involve creating a new process, task, or thread, depending on what the underlying operating system supports. This new server handles one client’s entire request. When the requested task”
― W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols

“There are other reasons we use math in physics. Besides keeping us honest, math is also the most economical and unambiguous terminology that we know of. Language is malleable; it depends on context and interpretation. But math doesn’t care about culture or history. If a thousand people read a book, they read a thousand different books. But if a thousand people read an equation, they read the same equation.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

“Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is “We don’t know.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions