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I liked this disclaimer > Despite several rounds of revision, these notes still contain mnay mistakes, errors, bugs, gaffes, omissions, snafus, kludges, typos,
by eranation 11y ago
I liked this disclaimer
> Despite several rounds of revision, these notes still contain mnay mistakes, errors, bugs, gaffes, omissions, snafus, kludges, typos, mathos, grammaros, thinkos, brain farts, nonsense, garbage, cruft, junk, and outright lies, all of which are entirely Steve Skiena’s fault
(Skiena is the author of The Algorithm Design Manual which is a very popular algorithm book. Seems like he reviewed these notes :)
I like computer science books with a sense of humor in any case...
- chaoxu 11y agoIt's actually a reference to a disclaimer in Algorithm Design Manual. I don't think he actually reviewed the lecture notes. The Algorithm Design Manual had the following(page ix in second edition) "Any errors, deficiencies, or problems in this book are somebody else’s fault, but I would appreciate knowing about them so as to determine who is to blame." Hence the joke. Source: Steve told me.
- eranation 11y agoLol :) Thanks!