boonsuan

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by boonsuan 3y ago
Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. The fact that a place is special to some because of its gre
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by boonsuan 3y ago
a love letter to the art you can roughly split the art of computer programming as currently written into ten major arcs, each around 300–400 pages (including the answers to exercises): 1 introduction (math prerequisites, assembly programmin
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The Dawn of Rigour in the Art of Programming (2023 Interview with Don Knuth)(bhavana.org.in)
3 points by boonsuan 4y ago|1 comments
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by boonsuan 4y ago
Don Knuth, now 85 years old, of The Art of Computer Programming fame, answers 40 interesting questions, each in exactly 280 characters. These questions are pretty fresh as far as Knuth interviews go. Also, a quote from one of his answers:
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by boonsuan 4y ago
check out https://zjkmxy.github.io/posts/2021/11/twos-complement-2-adi... for a discussion of some relevant mathematics; cool stuff there is also a lot of good stuff concerning such computational tricks and t
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by boonsuan 4y ago
have you read his current draft of fascicle 7a (7.2.2.3 Constraint Satisfaction)? it is currently 145 pages and is available at https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc7a.ps.gz
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by boonsuan 4y ago
very amusingly, the entire 700+ page volume covers only Sections 7.2.2.1 and 7.2.2.2 of The Art . The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne
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Volume 4B exists(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
14 points by boonsuan 4y ago|1 comments
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by boonsuan 4y ago
Fair enough, I agree with your advice. Thank you. In Singapore however there isn't really an equivalent of community college; there are polytechnics which are essentially associate degrees, and there are junior colleges which are like
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Ask HN: Self-studied math but can't enter college due to bad grades. What to do?
6 points by boonsuan 4y ago|7 comments