15:15:51jcowanReynolds has a historical paper called "The Discoveries of Continuations, detailing the 8 times that continuations were discovered before everybody in the research community knew about them.
15:18:19jcowanTwo of the authors had different surnames and turned out to be distantly related, but did not know of each other's work, or even each other.
23:23:39hayleyHere is a blogpost on using a genetic algorithm to sort the heuristics used to pick registers for a linear scan allocator: https://kunalspathak.github.io/2021-07-22-Genetic-Algorithms-In-LSRA/