I Programmer

Forward and backward recursion

The first list of instructions is obeyed on the way up the spiral i.e. as the instances of the function are being built and the second list is obeyed on the way back down the spiral as the instances ...

Why a Sudoku-solving program looks smart: Recursion, backtracking, and the idea of 'trying from the most likely failure points'

I was thinking about a program to solve Sudoku.You fill a 9x9 grid with numbers from 1 to 9. The same number must not be ...

Just Splitting Mahjong Tiles Leads to a Massive Flowchart—The Invention of Recursive Functions

When studying programming, you notice something strange.Processes that are extremely complex for humans to think through can ...
VICE

Tree Search, Recursion, and How Computers Play Games

Not much to add to this one: Web series Computerphile visits intelligent systems researcher Rob Miles at the University of Nottingham for a breezy but also pretty dense interview on the enormous ...
Jazz

John Blum, David Murray and Chad Taylor: The Recursive Tree

After maintaining an almost impossibly prolific recorded output during the 1980s and 1990s (with over fifty releases in the 1990s alone), saxophonist David Murray eased up considerably in the 2000s, ...