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by svat 6y ago
Someone (Denise Vella-Chemla) has prepared a (very) rough transcript here: http://denisevellachemla.eu/Knuth-Tarjan.pdf (It's full of errors some of which are highly misleading, so you should definitely not just read t
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by svat 6y ago
This is a problem with LaTeX, not TeX: whenever I've used plain TeX I've found the error messages extremely relevant and helpful; it's really pleasant to use. Yes you need to read the manual once to understand the conventions
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by svat 6y ago
Note that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX (and not on Emacs either). It is a completely independent editor, typesetting language, graphical frontend etc, all in one. Its developer, Joris van der Hoeven, is one of the co-authors of
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by svat 6y ago
Curious about this: What factor improvement would removing them make? Have you tried it on a few large instances (comparable to those in the paper)?
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by svat 6y ago
This is good advice. I've seen the opposite of every one of these points play out again and again, across different websites and online communities. I recently wrote an answer on one of the Stack Exchange (meta-) sites, on why this hap
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by svat 6y ago
Yes, I've read quite a few maths and CS journal articles and conference papers on it, including some two-column ones. Things I'd have previously printed on paper. It's a good substitute (I'm happy, and I'm reading m
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by svat 6y ago
Yes, there seems to be a cache somewhere. They have a nice trick: when you flip pages, a lower-resolution cached image renders and you can immediately start reading/writing, before being (almost immediately) replaced by the actual-reso
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by svat 6y ago
I've been using the RM1 for a few months. The screen and UI responsiveness are both fine. What is astonishingly slow is their ereader implementation. Basically, the model is something like this: • The ReMarkable is primarily like a she
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by svat 6y ago
Over the last three years, I have sent 12 emails to him, at the two addresses mentioned on the page (all were bug reports, as he says that's the only kind of email he accepts). Of these, 11 were processed in the way indicated on the pa
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by svat 6y ago
“Should animals have more eyes? Why don't they? Onion Science Editor Raef Gillis wonders.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUOAZisYQjM
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by svat 6y ago
(Posting here just for completeness…) Yes it can be solved optimally: https://shreevatsa.net/post/set-cover-ip/
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by svat 6y ago
This is a standard set cover problem. At these sizes it should be possible to find a guaranteed optimal solution rather than heuristics AFAICT.
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by svat 6y ago
“stamp'd” doesn't contain an 'e', and such forms are accepted especially in verse, and this is one of the tricks that Adair uses (sparingly) in his translation. (Used less than other tricks: https://www.goodre
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by svat 6y ago
There are a couple more poems I know and love on a similar theme, but they're probably not of interest to this audience as they're in Sanskrit :-) ( “सा रम्या नगरी…” by Bhartṛhari, “ मान्धाता स महीपतिः…” by Bhoja, and “…शान्त्यै म
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by svat 6y ago
“On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness” (1930) by Arthur Guiterman: The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls Of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust. The grizzly bear, whose p
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by svat 6y ago
This argument is circular: it is only Western indology that defines “Vedic” as referring to “the actual Vedas” by which it means only the saṃhitā portion of the texts. The traditional Indian understanding of “Veda” is indeed that it include
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by svat 6y ago
Relevant post (relevant to this incident even, as a sort of "Round 1" from about a year or so ago): https://web.archive.org/web/20190228161939/https://slatestar... — best to read the whole post
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by svat 6y ago
The “Knuth Trees” or the “Knuth transform” that the article refers to in the first sentence is the subject of The Art of Computer Programming section 2.3.2 “Binary Tree Representation of Trees”. (This is under 2.3 “Trees” in Chapter 2 “In
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by svat 6y ago
Interesting perception. I looked up the context of this letter: according to the books linked below and https://jamesjoyce.ie/day-24-february/ — the timeline was this: - In 1917 (when Wells would have been ~51 and Joyc
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by svat 6y ago
Really impressed with H. G. Wells here; he manages to: - imagine (correctly or incorrectly) a system of values/upbringing that might result in Finnegan's Wake being seen as good or worthwhile [not his words, but for example: val
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by svat 6y ago
Ha! I imagine the point was to spend a month writing the program mainly, while also doing a little driving during breaks. (BTW it appears that Milwaukee to Pasadena is about 2000 miles now, which works out to even less: ~70 miles a day. Or
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by svat 6y ago
( I started writing this comment when the submitted title was “The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth)” and the url was specifically the section http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7 , but i
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by svat 6y ago
If you just want a quick rough idea of how the book (Volume E) is structured, you could look at the January 1980 report of the same name: http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/80/78
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by svat 6y ago
If all you have is a few seconds, take a look at https://www.metaflop.com/modulator — play with the sliders, or click "flop it!" a few times. That's the best very-quick introduction today to the basic ideas b
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by svat 6y ago
Thanks! I've added most of that (there are no Wikipedia articles for Transit/Fressian/REBL/Codeq, so not sure how to mention those without external links which look weird inline). Still, an editor who doesn't like t
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by svat 6y ago
Are you, by any chance, reading the subtitle as “The greatest mathematician, who never lived” (i.e. Bourbaki was the greatest mathematician, and he never lived) rather than as (what's written) “The greatest mathematician who never live
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by svat 6y ago
I think a rule of thumb is that something must have been written that was about you , rather than about your creation or whatever. The idea is that as Wikipedia is supposed to be a summarization of the secondary sources on a topic, there s
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by svat 6y ago
I've gone ahead and restored the article, but not knowing much about Rich Hickey I hope someone here can edit the article to actually contain some (sourced, i.e. with citations) content, as it's pretty bare right now (looks/l
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by svat 6y ago
Pretty sure you mean this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP2D4DEQBTU — the contribution was crucial IMO :) I've seen Knuth give other (more recent) talks out of slides like that one ( https://cs.stanfo
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by svat 6y ago
Oh yes definitely: some of the “sins” of LaTeX (doing too much with TeX macros, etc) do start with Knuth himself (though he seems to have been doing it for fun rather than prescribing it for general use), and some are in plain TeX too. But

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