Re: CB: James Harris, you are own3d


jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
christian.bau wrote:
Sorry to feed that notorious troll James Harris here, but since he
decided to insult me in a recent post, I will answer.

1. James Harris, your talent as a mathematician can only be described
as zero. You haven't produced any useful mathematics in your whole
life. There has not been one single post of yours on sci.math that
would have been helpful to anybody. Your greatest achievement, the
so-called "prime-counting function", was invented by a real
mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre, about 200 years ago, and you
haven't even been able to understand improvements made to that method
100 years ago. Compared to me, you know absolutely nothing. And there
are people posting here who are as far ahead of me in mathematics as I
am ahead of you.

2. James Harris, as a programmer I can only classify you as
unemployable. After seeing code that you have written, you wouldn't
even make it to a job interview where I work, and that is just based on
your programming skills. Personal traits are also important in any
attempt to find employment, and with what we know about you, no amount
of programming skills could secure you a job.

3. James Harris, at a personal level I believe that you are below the
lowest of pond scum. I can remember you boasting about how you tried to
get one excellent mathematician fired for some imagined insult. Not
only are you despicable, you are even proud of it.

4. Now to your so-called challenge: The prime counting code that I
posted three years ago ran about 1000 times faster than the fastest
code you ever produced. That is ONE THOUSAND TIMES FASTER. You are
completely owned. You are so far behind, you are not even a joke.


See what I mean? Yup, Christian Bau is still an obnoxious little shit.

But with that said, he still managed a lot more than anyone else here
with other people's research, coding his own version of Odlyzko,
Lagarias et. al. which is screamingly fast.

Beat my code easily and handily.

Can't anyone else here?


James Harris

What's that got to do with anything?

I think my implementation of the Lagarias-Miller-Odlyzko algorithm will
beat yours at 10^15, but that's neither here nor there. I'm not a
programmer. I don't know the tricks for making code fast. The real
achievement is to come up with the algorithm in the first place.

Yes, I am impressed that you can write code that will evaluate the
function that fast for the small values, using such a bad algorithm.
But much better algorithms are known and any competent programmer could
write much faster code than yours. Christian already has. Presumably
other people can't be bothered. Why would we care? There's plenty of
software out there that's already been written for this purpose.

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