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Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. …

a love letter to the art you can roughly split the art of computer programming as currently written into ten major arcs, each around 300–400 pages (including the answers to exercis…

Don Knuth, now 85 years old, of The Art of Computer Programming fame, answers 40 interesting questions, each in exactly 280 characters. These questions are pretty fresh as far as K…

check out https://zjkmxy.github.io/posts/2021/11/twos-complement-2-adi... for a discussion of some relevant mathematics; cool stuff there is also a lot of good stuff concerning suc…

have you read his current draft of fascicle 7a (7.2.2.3 Constraint Satisfaction)? it is currently 145 pages and is available at https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc7a.ps.gz

very amusingly, the entire 700+ page volume covers only Sections 7.2.2.1 and 7.2.2.2 of The Art . The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne

Fair enough, I agree with your advice. Thank you. In Singapore however there isn't really an equivalent of community college; there are polytechnics which are essentially associate…

I'm a 20-year-old Singaporean who got rejected by the local university as my high school grades were terrible. However, I have self-studied a good amount of math in my free time, i…