Samurai Jack

One day, a bizarre mediation went something like this:

Samurai Jack was trapped in the future until he finished his karma.

Few know that Samurai Jack was an elite coder.

Samurai Jack was SO good, he once turned a O(n⁴) problem into a O(1) problem. The answer was simply "yes". ("Will the simulated ball go into the simulated basket?")

Translation: Four parameters to a function are as many as you'll EVER need to ANY programming problem. With the possible exception of meta-programs, like writing a compiler, where the answer is five. /* hardware interface programs may also count, where (if you're breaking down bit-values with their own names) you might need as many as your wordsize.*/

It is said that he was so good, he once transformed a whole OS and applications into a single ~200K executable, because "you didn't need to do all of that other stuff" and "everything can be distilled into its essence".

Translation: The nature of data is interconnected. All data, apart from pseudo-random numbers ("logical chaos"), is related to the real world, so he defined a unified epistemological model and applied everything in the world to it. Three dimensions of visualization was all that it took.

Once he transformed a hardware fault into a software one.

Translation: The exact *way* something fails may give you enough meaning that can decoded. Sometimes you have to *simulate* reality to solve a problem.

When he was asked to create a data sharing system for the planet's exabytes of data, he turned in a program consisting of interconnected objects containing the same 4 functions. Those functions took only one piece of data.

Translation: The world is still looking to understand how it works. ...but workses it does....

/*Edit: See SingularityOS project here at github.*/

That all I(who?) can get out for now about the myth and the legend. Seriously, we are wasting a lot of time in this world.

Who wrote this? This is me or my humor... WTF?