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Ironically, a significant portion of Knuth's lifetime work consists of digested summaries of original source materials.
by maxerickson 4y ago
Ironically, a significant portion of Knuth's lifetime work consists of digested summaries of original source materials.
- mymythisisthis 4y agoDo you have quick summary of Knuth stating this? Just want to know, curious.
- copperx 4y agoHe has indeed said that, I can confirm that much. It should be easy to find in one in the interviews.
- drekipus 4y agoYes it should be easy to find in 50+ hours of video content.
- bigcat12345678 4y agoIn addition to the other post in this thread mention that it's time consuming to go through the list. Fundamentally, that work can be saved by the original author spend negligible amount of energy to provide the reference. When I see people hiding information, or forgot to provide links, I am thinking a bit of human intellectual energy is wasted for no good reason...
- gkop 4y agoHe doesn’t have to state this. Look at his work.
- sixstringtheory 4y agoThe complaint is not the summarization, it is the lack of citation. I see no irony in this light.
- maxerickson 4y agoI wasn't referring to the complaint, it was a reference to the output of Knuth not being particularly accessible if you don't like reading digested summaries, because a big part of what he set out to do is to summarize academic research across a wide range of topics. I guess it's like rain on your weeding day.
- jwdunne 4y agoOne of the quotes seems to mention to that, where he says he digests a lot of papers to add a small part to TAoCP, since his aim is to write books that cover a the breadth of computer science (which necessarily cannot be as deep as these papers go).
- gkop 4y ago(In his digestive summaries, Knuth does provide citations, to be clear)
- maxerickson 4y agoI guess I don't understand why someone would make the contrary assumption about famous academic work.
- wolverine876 4y agoSynthesizing or summarizing? There is a difference.