Has anybody else noticed that Kyle Kulinski has *two* identical sets of 4 volumes of Knuth's the Art of Computer Programming, on his bookshelf that appears in the background of his videos?
Even if I don't think he has read them, that tells a lot about how analytical his mindset is, to have such interests!
(but why two?)
By the way, I warmly recommend his Youtube channel, "Secular Talk"!
I've read a couple of breathless articles about Donald #Knuth's use of #LLM systems, and found (unsurprisingly) that he has a paper about it, if you prefer your news without someone else's hot takes:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
(Sidebar: apparently he's working on *another* volume of #TAOCP? Good lord. I still haven't worked through the exercises in Vol. 1.)
Two #AI-related events over the past week — the #Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist #DonKnuth's shock over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1401
#Creativity #Licensing #OpenSource #Python #DonaldKnuth #TAOCP #Claude
Two esoteric programming events bubbled up this past week. If you’re not into computer science, they may appear irrelevant to you. They’re not. The arcane managed to bring to life our pressing questions about whether AI can create or is a regurgitation machine.
出版商已經幫 The Art of Computer Programming 建立 epub 格式的電子書了，大家可以支持一下
#嘟書 #書籍推薦 #books #TAOCP
https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-volume-1-fundamental-algorithms-9780201896831
ps. 台灣的書好便宜啊，可惜內容不太行 Orz
The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know about computer programming. Byte, September 1995I can't begin to tell you how many pleasurable hours of study and recreation they have afforded me! I have pored over them in cars, restaurants, at work, at home... and even at a Little League game when my son wasn't in the line-up.
>>> 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.
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.
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
This multivolume work on the analysis of algorithms has long been recognized as the definitive description of classical computer science. The four volumes published to date already comprise a unique and invaluable resource in programming theory and practice. Countless readers have spoken about the profound personal influence of Knuth's writings
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