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

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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

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.