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Complexity of a ...

Everyone at the table was talking either about cricket, tennis, or chess. bhOndOO was getting bored. He wanted junta to talk something else, or simply keep their mouths shut! He waited for a few minut… more »

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An autograph from Don Knuth

Florian Shkurti wrote 1 month ago: One of the good things about living in the San Francisco Bay area is that there is always an abundan … more »

Tags: stanford

METAPOST

qiongcai wrote 2 months ago: One of my favorite tools for drawing graph is METAPOST, which is developed by John Hobby and based o … more »

Tags: Programming, visualization, Tools, MetaPost

Daily Readings

qiongcai wrote 3 months ago: Interview with Donald Knuth: “To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have … more »

Tags: Readings, many-cores, parallel computing

An interesting interview with D. Knuth

alexeybrazhe wrote 3 months ago: I’ve recently read a very interesting interview with D. Knuth at http://www.informit.com/artic … more »

Tags: Programming, interviews

Dream Code

plaidtheimpaler wrote 3 months ago: So, I just recently finished reading Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com.   It is a … more »

Tags: Books, Chandler, Computer Programming, Dreaming in Code, Kurzweil, Open-Source, vaporware

Knuth hates XP

svec wrote 3 months ago: In this recent interview, Donald Knuth says: “Still, I hate to duck your questions even though … more »

Tags: technology, Programming, Extreme Programming, XP

complexity of a ...

iisc wrote 6 months ago: Everyone at the table was talking either about cricket, tennis, or chess. bhOndOO was getting bored. … more »

Tags: ACM, song complexity, Silence, discussion, Cricket, Chess, Tennis

helping donald knuth.

iisc wrote 6 months ago: Do you know how to spell Ashok Subramanian in the mother tongue in which this name originated? Or ho … more »

Tags: Indian, Indic, Script, Mother tongue

Happy birthday, Don Knuth!

jonathanfine wrote 6 months ago: Earlier this week Don Knuth turned 70. This inspired a coordinated series of posts by admirers in m … more »

Tags: TeX

Happy birthday, Don Knuth! — 1 comment

jonathanfine wrote 6 months ago: Earlier this week Don Knuth turned 70. This posting, inspired by a coordinated series of posts by a … more »

Tags: TeX

"What I need... — 3 comments

Shreevatsa wrote 7 months ago: … is a movie that is an hour and a half of River Tam beating up dinosaurs.” Randall Munr … more »

Tags: Comics, Google, xkcd

Now with two types of awesomeness

svec wrote 7 months ago: xkcd. Donald Knuth. xkcd and Donald Knuth. (check out 21:32 into the video) (yes, it’s safe f … more »

Tags: Geek, geeky, xkcd