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Donald Knuth making an Earthshaking Announcement June 30 in San Francisco
- Shamiq 17y agoIs he retiring?
- sown 17y agoMaybe it was hyperbole on his part?
- benofsky 17y agoQuite possible!
- fbu 17y agoHe's geting a job at Apple and his books will only be able in the iTeX format ?
- tokenadult 17y agoMaybe he has a designated successor for TAOCP?
- davidw 17y agoLaTeX to be renamed iLaTeX, and Knuth will be creating a group to approve articles written in it, to make sure they don't tarnish its image in any way.
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- eru 17y agoGood joke. Only--Knuth isn't the author of LaTeX.
- Malic 17y agoHe's getting a job at Google?
- pibefision 17y agogmail product manager? :)
- jey 17y agoTeX's version number will converge to pi ahead of schedule?
- gloob 17y agoMore earthshaking: TeX's version number will never converge to pi?
- die_sekte 17y agoKnuth rewrote himself in MMIX. Fully-documented MMIX.
- Avshalom 17y agoKnuth has proven pi is not transcendental and is changing the versioning to use the Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant
- jmount 17y agoI think announcement the Pi-version number of Tex is the right guess. From the Wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX ) that is when Tex freezes and no more bug fixes are allowed (every behavior from that point on is a required backwards compatible feature).
- baddox 17y agoI'm hoping he's discovered if P=NP.
- kloncks 17y agoThat will indue live up to the "earth shattering" promise. I think it might be one of the few, if not the only thing, that would live up to that.
- sswam 17y agoor perhaps he can break RSA in polynomial time or something like that
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- noamsml 17y agoPretty sure that's the same thing as proving P=NP.
- meami 17y agoHMAC/SHA-512 Tests HMAC/SHA-512 Short ASCII Text: HMAC/SHA-512 Short Hex Key:value="0123456789:;<=>?@ABC0123456789:;<=>?@ABC" HMAC/SHA-512 Short Hex Result: value="74ed1131b8e37c0e18829b7ae7d99925664cfe055c2d01fa00d0f152ac321a50f3ef1ee91a36fd6248de60ede4196a4f9e5acca4981a09a91a0745d674ca11d3" HMAC/SHA-512 Med ASCII Text: HMAC/SHA-512 Med Hex Key: value="000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f202122232425262728292a2b2c2d2e2f303132333435363738393a3b3c3d3e3f000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f202122232425262728292a2b2c2d2e2f303132333435363738393a3b3c3d3e3f" HMAC/SHA-512 Med Hex Result: HMAC/SHA-512 Med Correct:value="e3c46b747b407ae103d75d94cc2247d6fef607a019e9dca6a1183966a163eb19317e7642da27b6e6ed22fea8224c493d5f20a458f83a555b94264253ddceb242" HMAC/SHA-512 Large Hex Text: value="53616D706C65202333" HMAC/SHA-512 Large Hex Key:value="505152535455565758595a5b5c5d5e5f606162636465666768696a6b6c6d6e6f707172737475767778797a7b7c7d7e7f808182838485868788898a8b8c8d8e8f909192939495969798999a9b9c9d9e9fa0a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9aaabacadaeafb0b1b2b3505152535455565758595a5b5c5d5e5f606162636465666768696a6b6c6d6e6f707172737475767778797a7b7c7d7e7f808182838485868788898a8b8c8d8e8f909192939495969798999a9b9c9d9e9fa0a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9aaabacadaeafb0b1b2b3" HMAC/SHA-512 Large Hex Result: HMAC/SHA-512 Large Correct: value="a2a8627f166e8c52d95fbf5c55271d466d43b73696e94977d08262f021d9a916f9d10f09f40db64e038c2ed3b16fbb9e61082c9173acfa86445612ccd4d8836c"
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- halo 17y agoI'm surprised that no-one has suggested the obvious: that The Art Of Computer Programming Vol. 4 - Combinatorial Algorithms is complete. But that's no fun, so I hope it's something truly earth shattering, like Knuth getting an e-mail address.
- imurray 17y agoGiven the venue, presumably the announcement will be TeX related.
- lsb 17y agoHe had an email address. He gave it up in the early 90s, when he decided that 15 years of email was enough for any man. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
- noonespecial 17y agoHowever mundane it might actually end up being, I bet it doesn't trump the "announcement that will redefine how cities are built" turning out to be a goofy little scooter.
- Tichy 17y agoA magical text with an unbelievable price.
- pyre 17y agoI would laugh if it was just something mundane, done in total Andy Kauffman style.
- die_sekte 17y agoMaybe he is doing a pipe organ concert.
- amichail 17y agoHas Knuth even looked at TeXmacs yet? Perhaps he is ignoring it on purpose?
- fdb 17y agoHe has solved the halting problem?
- jodrellblank 17y agoHe has halted the problem solving?
- unignorant 17y agoMight it be sarcasm/parody? This can be conveyed with unnecessary capital lettering.
- jey 17y agoHyperbole, probably.
- rman666 17y agoTo announce he will be posing for a new "Programming, you're doing it wrong" poster.
- Sandman 17y agoNah, you're all wrong. It's actually this: http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg
- Dellort 17y agoExpect the unexpected; He has made a lateral move into an entirely different business: The porn industry. I do not think he can possibly offer more than he already has to CS so he will now focus on contribution that will primarily benefit the degenerates among us. I believe I heard Paul Graham stating that he would do this as well when he was done with YC as after all he is a man of the future. It's all about staying ahead and being flexible about business.
- asimjalis 17y agoTo connect this with the 29 other stories here, Literate Programming is also now no longer permitted on the App Store. Tangle and weave on the Android if you must.
- jsyedidia 17y agoIt's a funny comment, but not really true. The ctangle program would just strip the comments (both C/C++ comments and TeX commentary) out of a .w file and re-arrange the C/C++ code to the order that the compiler would need to see it. While many other tools would leave tell-tale traces of machine-generated code, the C or C++ files generated by ctangle are really indistinguishable from human-written code, because they are the original human-written code. So Apple couldn't tell that you used Literate Programming, nor would it violate the spirit of the rules. Now I wonder how many people use Literate Programming to program for the iPhone. My guess is zero, which is too bad.
- asimjalis 17y agoIt would not violate the spirit but it would violate the letter of the contract. Apple requires that "applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript" and CWEB is neither. Apple forbids literate programs -- only illiterate programs will be permitted in the App Store.
- gjm11 17y ago> the C or C++ files generated by ctangle are really indistinguishable from human-written code The C or C++ files are typically pretty easy to distinguish from code written by normal human beings (no comments, weird formatting, etc.; more ambiguously, LP tends to produce larger functions/methods because you can break things out as LP sections rather than using the facilities of the underlying language), but there wouldn't be any sign of that in the object code. (Not even the larger functions, necessarily, since the compiler could inline them.)
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- devin 17y agoMaybe he rewrote TAOCP in C?
- noamsml 17y agoSo it can be read with the iPhone?
- tlholaday 17y agoJill Knuth is really James Randi.
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- samratjp 17y agoHe's going to write and direct a musical adapted from "The Art Of Computer Programming"
- mark_l_watson 17y agoJust so Tex and Latex stay the same, I'll be happy :-)
- caryme 17y agoHe's behind all of the earthquakes of late!
- thmz 17y agoEarthshaking like the Segway promise?
- buro9 17y agoIt could be LaTeX v3... that's been in progress for so long that any major news would be a shock.
- dasht 17y agoMy guess (sure, I'll add to the noise): he's designating successors for the care, feeding, and future development of TeX. He's "retiring" from TeX. Hence the lead in to the panel session that follows. But that's just a guess.