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by svat 6y ago
This reminded me of something Knuth says about this paper (starting around 8:17) in the talk I mentioned in another comment, showing that his historical knowledge, at least on this particular topic, wasn't always so deep: > The oth
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https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Trabb_Pardo%E2%80%93Knuth_algor...
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This is a paper by Donald Knuth and his student Luis Trabb Pardo, and the published version has a more readable reprint: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-491650-0.50019-8 (without paywall: http://sci-hub.se
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by svat 6y ago
So with that understanding in the comment above, a case study of the ADVENTURE program ( http://literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf or download from https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-program
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You are right that literate programming first occurred to Knuth as a way to overcome the deficiencies of Pascal. Specifically, it was the product of a few things: 1. The first version of TeX was written in 1978 and spread like wildfire in a
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Ha! On that composition: I have no ear for Western classical music, and familiarity with neither the organ as a musical instrument nor the Bible's Book of Revelation, but even so, I can guess this project is… unique. He calls it ( http
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Wow, thanks for that story and those details! Always exciting to hear about those times. Knuth also mentions this "worst day of my life" incident (without much detail) in his Kyoto Prize lecture[1] and Web of Stories interview[2],
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Given the Bell Labs mention, you may be thinking of Hamming's talk “You and Your Research” ( https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html ), where that idea is mentioned: > Now for the matter of d
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Thanks a lot for conducting this interview, transcribing it, and sharing it! It's lovely, and covers a lot of interesting/new ground; your questions are well-chosen. I've read/heard/watched a lot of Knuth interviews
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Of course the need for external stimuli is a universal and important human need. The question is merely whether 100% of one's waking moments must serve this need, or whether one has the ability to spend a percent or so of one's ti
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Wow this is great, thank you! As someone with a reasonably positive opinion of all three here (Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Orwell), I must say Orwell's clarity is remarkable. > It is a mistake to write Tolstoy off as a moralist attac
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See the series "No Fear Shakespeare" by SparkNotes, e.g. King Lear starts here: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/lear/page_2/ The full set is here: https://www.sparknote
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No doubt postmodernists have something interesting to say. But as the question is one of earnestness rather than importance or interestingness, consider some examples: > Thus the erectile organ comes to symbolize the place of jouissance
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of the Loeb books that the original is right there on the facing page, so that both the original Greek/Latin and the English translation can be read together? I guess in prin
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My favourite part of this article (disclosure: I've made almost this exact comment before elsewhere): > The see-and-point principle states that users interact with the computer by pointing at the objects they can see on the screen.
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As with any typical problem (NP-hard or otherwise), very large instances are infeasible to solve, and very small instances can be quickly solved. What's interesting is the in-between region: instances that can be solved within a huma
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I think the point is that the same document can compile without errors for one document class (style file), while being erroneous for another. So switching styles is not simply a matter of changing the \documentclass at the top, contrary to
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It's clearer from the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goat_problem&oldi... ): earlier we only had expressions for r like https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1&#x
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The paper this article is about: * A Closed-Form Solution to the Geometric Goat Problem , by Ingo Ullisch in The Mathematical Intelligencer . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-09966-0 The illustration in the articl
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The issue is not really specific to this pair of LaTeX styles, in my experience. I'm not sure why you call the style broken: the final result looks fine, and DJB didn't have to fix any errors in the style itself, only in his docum
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This is not “from the other side”. Note that, despite the editorialized title of the HN submission here ( Measuring "efficiency" in document prepration: Microsoft Word vs. LaTex ), what the link contains is primarily a criticism o
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For anyone who thinks that the author here (D. J. Bernstein) is biased in favour of LaTeX, he has elsewhere written one of the most stinging criticisms I've seen: https://cr.yp.to/writing/visual.html (LaTeX haters
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I agree, but one also can't blame Knuth: he wrote the program the way he knew best (he's a machine-code programmer at heart), under the constraints at the time (portability at various academic sites circa 1980 practically dictated
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While the name “Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust” is very exciting, there are two problems: • “LaTeX” is a set of macros (ab)using the macro/text-expansion feature of an underlying TeX engine (LuaTeX, XeTeX, pdTeX, original Knuth TeX, or t
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I'm reminded of a post called Music and Lyrics in Math Talks ( https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion78.html ) by the mathematician Doron Zeilberger: > Human beings have bodies and souls. Computers h
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The following two articles I read earlier are not analyses of these laws specifically, but I found them useful to understand a little bit about the French perspective: • One of these two — https://www.tabletmag.com/sections&
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> many of us back-end developers would be over the moon if we were able to make "meh" design in the first place > I thought it would be a good introduction to the fundamentals of visual design I can relate, so a recommen
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In fact you can ssh to the device over wifi, even without connecting the device via USB. The device just needs to be awake (not sleeping/suspended). The web interface works only over USB, but you can scp files onto the device directly
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Consider using k2pdfopt or some such tool. Also, this paper is from ICFP 2002 whose proceedings were published in print form. Several libraries hold it: https://www.worldcat.org/title/proceedings-of-the-seventh-ac...
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Wikipedia has an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale The 1970 event remained little-known until in 1990 Dave Barry wrote about it[1], and it became really well-known thanks to the internet in 1993

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