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> everyone in the world is invited to contact him about every word he has ever written But not by email.
by smitty1e 4y ago
> everyone in the world is invited to contact him about every word he has ever written
But not by email.
- lou1306 4y agoWell, as others have pointed out, at his scale this is likely a necessary rate-limiting countermeasure. Even relatively obscure academics easily end raking up hundreds of emails in their inboxes once they are senior enough. With someone as popular as Knuth, it would be madness.
- svat 4y agoYes by email (search the posted page for "@" or look under "Rewards" at https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html#:~:text=Rewards https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html#:~:text=Rewards ) And when I said "invited" I meant "strongly incentivized": by offering cash rewards (initially) and those highly prized "Knuth checks", he surely gets orders of magnitude more scrutiny and error reports than a typical academic.