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While I love these videos, they have been online for several years now. The Slashdot headline is a misunderstanding of the article it is based on[1] which, when
by svat 3y ago
While I love these videos, they have been online for several years now. The Slashdot headline is a misunderstanding of the article it is based on[1] which, when it says "Recently Stanford uploaded…", means a few years ago (before which too they were online, but not grouped into the same set of playlists on YouTube).
Anyway, the article this is based on[1] is a good summary of this year's talk. For several years now, this website (thenewstack.io), and specifically David Cassel, have been writing excellent summaries of each year's talk (see the "Previous Donald Knuth Christmas Lectures" at the end of the post, which links to everything from 2017 and later).
[1]: https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2023-christmas-lecture-make-the-cells-dance/ https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2023-christmas-lecture-...
- npinsker 3y agoReading a few of the written summaries, I’m finding them lacking. They often elide or even misstate important details and definitions; and the things the author focuses on are sometimes odd and make me think they aren’t able to understand the mathematics.
- svat 3y agoWhatever small faults there may be, each year these are the only reporting of these lectures at this level of detail. And the attention to humorous anecdotes or Knuthisms is not a problem; these are what those of us who attended the talk also remember. (The actual mathematics is often just a paragraph or two, or one problem and solution, in TAOCP and can be read there -- which is another indication of how "packed" the books are.)