39 points | by Curiositry 2 hours ago ago
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I'm surprised we haven't heard of anyone running an AI on Donald Knuth's books to generate the largest collection of checks in existence...
The biggest shame of my life is that I had one of these and somehow managed to lose it.
If that's your biggest shame then you must have lived a good life.
What a brilliant teaching technique, think of how many people studied his work for bounties that they would never cash.
The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth had just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.
Awesome! I know the feeling, I have two myself. https://x.com/loginn/status/1367475093719416833
(Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)
I bet the mailing cost was more than 0x$2.00 for Knuth.
Interesting how no other writers in the field seem to have adopted Knuths' strategy to get their books proofread to the point of being bullet proof.
I know a guy (ricbit) who have 4 or more
But what's the most Reward checks anyone has ever held?
Top entry:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
thanks!
Images weren't loading for me, here's a Wayback Machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20260412143311/https://www.thoma...
I'm surprised we haven't heard of anyone running an AI on Donald Knuth's books to generate the largest collection of checks in existence...
The biggest shame of my life is that I had one of these and somehow managed to lose it.
If that's your biggest shame then you must have lived a good life.
What a brilliant teaching technique, think of how many people studied his work for bounties that they would never cash.
The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth had just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.
Awesome! I know the feeling, I have two myself. https://x.com/loginn/status/1367475093719416833
(Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)
I bet the mailing cost was more than 0x$2.00 for Knuth.
Interesting how no other writers in the field seem to have adopted Knuths' strategy to get their books proofread to the point of being bullet proof.
I know a guy (ricbit) who have 4 or more
But what's the most Reward checks anyone has ever held?
Top entry:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
thanks!