Mastodawn

Indronil Banerjee May 28, 2025

Prove You’re Human, Stupid [ the captcha paradox]
https://talkingrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/captcha_paradox.jpeg

Indronil Banerjee Mar 9, 2025

Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth’s TAOCP

https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp

Indronil Banerjee Nov 8, 2024

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/turing-kicked-us-out-of-heaven/

Turing kicked us out of Heaven

The halting problem is why we can't have nice things.

Computer Things

Indronil Banerjee Oct 8, 2024

Brian Kernighan famously wrote:

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

— The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition, chapter 2

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.php

Kernighan's lever

Indronil Banerjee Aug 6, 2024

https://djharper.dev/post/2019/05/21/i-dont-know-how-cpus-work-so-i-simulated-one-in-code/

I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code - djhworld

thoughts

Indronil Banerjee Jul 9, 2023

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Chistory

Indronil Banerjee Feb 7, 2023

R.I.P Abraham Lempel
(The L in LZW)

Indronil Banerjee Dec 6, 2022

Who will win? Don Knuth, the great literate programmer -or- Doug McIlroy, the master of Unix one-liners? Knuth once wrote a 10 page program that sorts words using literate programming, and then McIlroy did the same with a Unix one-liner.

https://catonmat.net/knuth-vs-mcilroy

Knuth vs McIlroy (Epic Computer Science Battles)

Who will win? Don Knuth, the great literate programmer -or- Doug McIlroy, the master of Unix one-liners? Donald Knuth vs Douglas McIlroy (For those of you out of the loop, Knuth once wrote a 10 page program that sorts words using literate programming, and then McIlroy did the same with a Unix one-liner.) See you next...