The biggest shame of my life is that I had one of these and somehow managed to lose it.
assumed_throwaw 10 minutes ago [-]
I'm surprised we haven't heard of anyone running an AI on Donald Knuth's books to generate the largest collection of checks in existence...
largbae 10 minutes ago [-]
What a brilliant teaching technique, think of how many people studied his work for bounties that they would never cash.
jacquesm 7 minutes ago [-]
Interesting how no other writers in the field seem to have adopted Knuths' strategy to get their books proofread to the point of being bullet proof.
ape4 28 minutes ago [-]
The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth has just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.
(Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html