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#嘟書 #書籍推薦 #books #TAOCP
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ps. 台灣的書好便宜啊，可惜內容不太行 Orz

>>> The word “hexadecimal,” which has crept into our language even more recently, is a mixture of Greek and Latin stems; more proper terms would be “senidenary” or “sedecimal” or even “sexadecimal,” but the latter is perhaps too risqué for computer programmers.

#TAOCP #donald_knuth #joke #humor

oh wow

#secondHandBooks #taocp

I had reason to look up arctan in the index of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming (vol2) and it appears on pages 313 and 628.

So close.

#taocp

Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp — https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp
#HackerNews #DiscoveringErrors #DonaldKnuth #Taocp #ProgrammingHistory #TechErrors #ComputerScience

Dear Donald Knuth!
Happy 87th birthday. Please keep your perseverance to work on #TAOCP and stay healthy!
A fan.
#knuth #donknuth #dek

This was recently sent off to the publisher, and will be landing within a couple of months: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 7: Constraint Satisfaction by #Knuth

https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-volume-4-fascicle-7-constraint-9780135328248

#TAoCP

"The IPL-V and FLPL systems for List-processing did not use either a garbage collection or a reference count technique for the problem of shared Lists; instead, each List was “owned” by one List and “borrowed” by all other Lists that referred to it, and a List was erased when its “owner” allowed it to disappear."

D. Knuth, #TAOCP Vol. 1, p. 461

So, #rustlang isn't the first one to use owned/borrowed terms.

The most well known #lispm designs like Symbolics Genera employs incremental GC likely because their processors can do "single core" multithreading and GC runs on a regular thread, an earlier design by Guy Steel Jr. uses multi-processors and synchronization between them to perform parallel GC, as it has already shown before parallel GC is possible in an Exercise problem in #TAOCP volume 1, inspired many later high performance GC algorithms.

According to my own experience with the D. Knuth's TAOCP (The Art of Computer Programming), the following two articles, written by the same computer programmer as reflections on the first and third (final) years of reading it, gives a correct and realistic feedback on what to expect from the monograph. 

https://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art055

https://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art070

#Knuth #TAOCP #books #ComputerScience

Just opened up #knuth 's The Art of Computer Programming #taocp. I bought the full set on #Kindle this morning. The first para of ch1 traces the #etymology of the word #algorithm to Abu Abdallh al-Khwarizmi. This is well known. But I got curious. What was modern Khawarizmi like? It is located on the border between modern-day #uzbekistan and #turkmenistan. One of the large cities on the Uzbek side being #urgench. Nice to see the birthplace of #algebra. Cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHTYQ44vcc

Guaranteed funny. Steve Jobs meets with Knuth first time. Real story!

https://folklore.org/Close_Encounters_of_the_Steve_Kind.html?sort=date

#apple#stevejobs #macintosh #knuth #realitydistortionfield #fail #taocp

Today is Don Knuth's 86th birthday. Happy birthday and I wish him health and comfort to finish his #TAOCP series!
#donknuth #DEK #CS

Developing a strategy to teach #TAOCP to a ten year-old...

#bbcmicrobit #micropython

If you read a future printing of #TAOCP Vol. 4A and don't get mildly irritated by a reference to an answer that is off by one, you can thank me.
In other words: I just earned my first hexadollar.

Yes, it is – it has been a very rewarding experience:

“Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP Worth The Time And Effort? (2023)”, Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443668).

#HackerNews #Knuth #DonaldKnuth #TAOCP #TheArtOfComputerProgramming #Books #Classics #ComputerScience #AskHN

@heisedeveloper
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#TAOCP

Eilinen löytö kirpputorilta. Nyt algoritmit haltuun! #taocp #knuth

So these arrived earlier today. I’m having a “meet your heroes” moment. Cannot wait to get stuck into volume 1. #Knuth #taocp

Today I received an #amazondelivery containing a set of #taocp. As I had preordered I got this for a bargain price (€70 instead of the €320 it now costs). Of course, being a heavy delivery Amazon packed it poorly so the slipcase was badly damaged, but at least the books survived more-or-less intact.