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by svat 5mo ago
Hi (looks like I've already starred your repo at some point months/years ago)! The motivation was not to replace art with technology, but to preserve/resurrect an art that was going away, by truly capturing the human understa
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by svat 5mo ago
Actually: • He had already published the first editions of Volume 1, 2, 3, and the second edition of Volume 1, by 1973. It was in 1977 when the publishers sent him galley proofs for the second edition of Volume 2, having switched to phototy
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by svat 5mo ago
I was hoping to reply to this in detail but as I never got around to it, I'll keep it short: mostly it's about the editorial changes they make to the text, modernizing spelling etc. Many of the changes are unjustified IMO, and oft
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by svat 5mo ago
Have you considered having a detailed version history for each book (etext)? The process of submitting fixes to typos etc in books involves sending an email ( https://www.gutenberg.org/help/errata.html ) and although the
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by svat 5mo ago
In what way? And from what sources? (Wikipedia as a tertiary source is supposed to be a summary of information present in reliable secondary sources — see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Based_upon
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by svat 5mo ago
Curious, what are the advantages you see in each relative to the other? Also one should probably compare the former to the single-page version on standardebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-shakespeare&#x2
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by svat 5mo ago
I don't know whether I'm missing something obvious, but with a patent, only the patenting company would use their patented idea. In your post you say: > If you disclose your brilliant idea, everyone will copy it and your advan
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by svat 5mo ago
There is another version of this book that includes the illustrations missing from this version, at https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/cs1193.pdf or http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cs
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by svat 5mo ago
Here is a table I just made (edit: changed to list as HN wraps code blocks now), of iOS vs Android (now) vs Android (after Sep 2026 or 2027 or whenever these announced changes take effect): •1. Where most users can install software from: ↠↠
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by svat 6mo ago
Yes but if you read the article closely, what it's saying is that Waymo, which launched in London earlier this month, told cycling campaigners in San Francisco that it is normal practice (and this is according to the campaigners, not
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by svat 6mo ago
For perspective closer to the topic here, these are the approximate word counts of the books currently listed at "George Orwell bibliography" under "Novels": • Burmese Days (1934): 97000 • A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935):
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by svat 6mo ago
Incidentally, in 1946 when the British public had been turned against Wodehouse because of the (entirely innocuous) radio broadcasts he had made as a German prisoner (I imagine Lord Haw-Haw was on their mind, which influenced their opinion)
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by svat 6mo ago
> Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole. I have not written a novel for seven years, but I hope to write another fairl
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by svat 6mo ago
> The bet is not “are you 100% sure a CRQC [cryptographically-relevant quantum computer] will exist in 2030?”, the bet is “are you 100% sure a CRQC will NOT exist in 2030?” — from https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timelin
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by svat 6mo ago
It's a bug in the website's preview mode — if you look at the full essay, it has (if I've counted correctly) 25 paragraphs. There are also three paragraphs that start with "BC" for some reason, which seem to be bigg
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by svat 6mo ago
It's not obvious from the webpage, but if you are a subscriber or enter your email address you can read the whole essay, which is 4849 words long. And though it does not mention Goodreads explicitly, it does mention "Amazon review
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by svat 6mo ago
To clarify, the talk is by an Anthropic researcher, though given the subject of LLMs, "entropic researcher" also makes some kind of sense.
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by svat 6mo ago
> I’ve read many articles on the same topic but never found it presented this way - hopefully N + 1 is of help to someone. Can confirm; yes it was helpful! I've never thought seriously about parsing and I've read occasionally
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by svat 6mo ago
The short blog post announcing this paper: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/mathematical-metho... In particular: > This is an unabridged version of a solicited article for a forthcoming Blackwell
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by svat 7mo ago
> There is always a significant chance all of it is leaked sooner or later. As an adversarial/worst-case model, it can be useful to think of every service as potentially storing forever all the data that you ever give it access to
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by svat 7mo ago
> “Non-denial denial” is a term of art in PR. Never read one? They’re fun. — patio11 about this response ( https://x.com/patio11/status/2035115379169677717 )
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by svat 7mo ago
Whether or not one can tell it's AI generated, one can certainly tell it's not Knuth. For one thing, the writing style is very different. Not that there haven't been other great computer scientists who may have written in thi
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by svat 7mo ago
I think it's also a privacy thing; you have to go into the Waymo app and “connect” your YouTube Music account (even though both have the same @gmail.com address), because otherwise the terms of service of one do not allow sharing data
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by svat 7mo ago
Thank you. Yeah given the caveat I think it's probably hard then, unfortunately. (For context, I'm someone who's generally very uncoordinated, didn't play any sports growing up, etc, and a few months ago at 39 I fell fro
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by svat 7mo ago
This post rests on: > Falling doesn't have to be dangerous. You can fall a lot without getting hurt, if you learn to fall safely. With inline skating, you have protective gear (helmet, knee/elbow pads, wrist guards) which pro
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by svat 7mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230710
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by svat 7mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4
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by svat 7mo ago
The issue is not of low resolution exactly, but font format. Knuth uses bitmap fonts, rather than vector fonts like everyone else. This is because his entire motivation for creating TeX and METAFONT was to not be reliant on the font technol
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by svat 7mo ago
Maybe you did this too: I misread the comment you're replying to as > …you’re arguing against someone who believes they are. when actually it says > …you’re arguing against who someone believes they are. (meaning “you're arg
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by svat 8mo ago
Would that satisfy most commenters here? Prediction: Android will roll out a flow for “experienced users” that they promised in November with “in the coming months” ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11&#x2

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