https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/ The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories #DonaldKnuth #LaTeX #TeX #Information #ComputerScience

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
-- Donald Knuth

⬆ #Quotes #DonaldKnuth #Art #Science

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

#DonaldKnuth on #ChatGPT.
https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

Among other good points:

"I find it fascinating that novelists galore have written for decades
abt scenarios that might occur after a 'singularity' in which
superintelligent machines exist. But as far as I know, not a single
novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely
be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent
(say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact
with them freely."

A lot to like about this exchange between Knuth and ChatGPT, but I loved he came up with this great set of questions while biking to work, and him being him, he had a student actually interact with the software because why bother:

https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

#ChatGPT #DonaldKnuth

@nix

[1/2] A bit techy, but relevant to writers in all fields.

In the 1970s, computer scientist #DonaldKnuth was unhappy with the quality of the #typesetting for his books. Being #Knuth, he wrote a new programming language to do the job on the computer. This is #TeX, the programme, pronounced "tek" or "tech". An active community develops user-friendly higher-level packages, called #TeXLaTeX.

There are free implementations for most environments. On Windows I use the #MikTex app.

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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
-- Donald Knuth

#Art #Science #DonaldKnuth #Quotes #Panopainting #Bot

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
-- Donald Knuth

#Art #Science #DonaldKnuth #Quotes #Panopainting #Bot

「有害なgoto」「時期尚早な最適化」、そしてプログラミングにまつわる神話は諸悪の根源である | POSTD
https://postd.cc/programming-myths/

#donaldknuth #programming #engineering #optimization

Exactly; every programmer knows 😏
“There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail.” #donaldknuth

This year, 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of that fateful day in 1962 when a 24-year-old Donald Knuth started writing “The Art of Computer Programming.” Now approaching his 85th birthday, Knuth has become almost a legend in the world of computer programming — and he’s still writing additional volumes for his massive analysis of algorithms.

But every year, right around Christmas time, there’s another tradition. Knuth gives a special lecture “pitched at non-specialists” for a small audience at Stanford University (where Knuth is a professor emeritus) and a larger audience online.

Donald Knuth’s 2022 ‘Christmas Tree’ Lecture Is about Trees
https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2022-christmas-tree-lecture-is-about-trees/

#algorithms #donaldknuth #BinaryTree

Donald Knuth: It's really important to be precise, here's 391 pages on sorting.

Also Donald Knuth: H places the float at precisely the location in the LaTeX code. This is somewhat equivalent to h!.

#tex #latex #knuth #donaldknuth #taocp

@ataxyanetwork En plus le langage Web, c'est du pascal, pas du Java ...
#DonaldKnuth

La conférence "Tchoukaillon Numbers" de #DonaldKnuth à DIMACS Center de l'université Rutgers le 2022-01-27 s'est terminée par cette phrase à l'écran :
"Everything I know about this subject can be found at
this URL: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc14a.ps.gz"
Le document en question est daté du 2022-01-27 +intitulé "BIPARTITE MATCHING (ridiculously preliminary draft)" (sic & dixit!) +15 pages +#format PDF créé avec "dvips(k) 5.98" (selon les métadonnées). Bonne lecture !

The conference about "Tchoukaillon Numbers" by #DonaldKnuth at DIMACS Center from Rutgers University on 2022-01-27 finished with this sentence on the screen:
"Everything I know about this subject can be found at
this URL: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc14a.ps.gz"
This document has the date 2022-01-27 +title "BIPARTITE MATCHING (ridiculously preliminary draft)" (sic & dixit!) +15 pages +PDF #format made with "dvips(k) 5.98" (accordinf to the metadata). Happy reading!

Donald Knuth showing how to win at Mastermind in five moves or fewer in 1976.

https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/knuth-mastermind.pdf

#Games #MasterMind #DonaldKnuth

Donald Knuth on the 'dumbing down' of the history of computer science. Here, he means people documenting the history of the business side of Computer Science, but not the history of the actual technical details of software, algorithms, etc.

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/articles/250078-lets-not-dumb-down-the-history-of-computer-science/fulltext

#History #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #DonaldKnuth #Lectures

PDF Transcript of an interview with Donald Knuth

https://philipkiely.com/assets/files/WfSD_Bonus_Interview_-_Donald_Knuth.pdf

Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25589619 ]

#Interviews #ComputerScience #DonaldKnuth #Algorithms #Typesetting #Computing

"The Art of Computer Programming". \TeX. Literate Programming. Pipe Organ playing. On the many facets of Donald Knuth.

"Quanta Magazine spoke with Knuth in February at his home on the Stanford campus. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/

#Personalities #ComputerScience #DonaldKnuth

A story of a real-life check from Donald Knuth. With tips on how to work to get one. :-)

#Books #Computers #Programming #DonaldKnuth #Mathematics

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2019/05/17/knuth-check.html

Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19948517 ]

The #Yoda of #SiliconValley

#DonaldKnuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
#TeX #Metafont

🔸 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html