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Two #AI-related events over the past week — the #Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist #DonKnuth's shock over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1401

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an impressive shelf of programming books in a charity shop, including Teach Yourself C++ (ninth edition, C++23) Stroustrup's Programming Principles and Practice using C++ The Pragmatic Programmer Volumes 1-4A of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Sedgwick+Wayne Algorithms Hands on Machine Learning with SciKit Learn and Tensorflow Python for Finance JavaScript Patterns JavaScript the Good Parts (very thin book) Speaking JavaScript Web Scraping with Python Python Distilled rest cut off

oh _wow_

#secondHandBooks #taocp

Dear Donald Knuth!
Happy 87th birthday. Please keep your perseverance to work on #TAOCP and stay healthy!
A fan.
#knuth #donknuth #dek

Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 7, The: Constraint Satisfaction | InformIT This multivolume work on the analysis of algorithms has long been recognized as the definitive description of classical computer science. The four volumes published to date already comprise a unique and invaluable resource in programming theory and practice. Countless readers have spoken about the profound personal influence of Knuth's writings

This was recently sent off to the publisher, and will be landing within a couple of months: Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 7, The: Constraint Satisfaction by #Knuth

www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-pr...

#TAoCP

When it comes to photos... here’s my #TAOCP right after it arrived. I plan to get through Volume 1 by the time I retire. :D

Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort? | Hacker News

Yes, it is – it has been a very rewarding experience:

“Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP Worth The Time And Effort? (2023)”, Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844...).

#HackerNews #Knuth #DonaldKnuth #TAOCP #TheArtOfComputerProgramming #Books #Classics #ComputerScience #AskHN