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Hacker NewsRevisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper<a href="https://probablydance.com/2025/06/19/revisiting-knuths-premature-optimization-paper/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://probablydance.com/2025/06/19/revisiting-knuths-premature-optimization-paper/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Revisiting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Revisiting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Premature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Premature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Optimization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paper</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#optimization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#knuth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwaredevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwaredevelopment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techthoughts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computerScience</a>

yoxem<a href="https://g.co/gemini/share/563cacd94039" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://g.co/gemini/share/563cacd94039</a> 連tsit款無hang ê領域mā會當vibe coding <a class="hashtag" href="https://sns.kianting.info/tag/typography" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Typography</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://sns.kianting.info/tag/排版" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#排版</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://sns.kianting.info/tag/knuth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a> - <a class="hashtag" href="https://sns.kianting.info/tag/plass" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plass</a> Algorithm

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞYet another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Numberphile</a> on stupidly big numbers: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ZPdnHGzg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ZPdnHGzg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mathematics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#numbers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Steinhaus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Steinhaus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Moser</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GrahamsNumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GrahamsNumber</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a> Part 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwK4BgwzP8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwK4BgwzP8</a>

theHigherGeometerBoth of these are via <a href="https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2024-christmas-lecture-strong-memories/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2024-christmas-lecture-strong-memories/</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a>

theHigherGeometerThis was recently sent off to the publisher, and will be landing within a couple of months: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 7: Constraint Satisfaction by <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a> <a href="https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-volume-4-fascicle-7-constraint-9780135328248" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-volume-4-fascicle-7-constraint-9780135328248</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TAoCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TAoCP</a>

Bharath M. PalavalliI’ve always enjoyed reading Donald Knuth but listening to him in <a href="https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/donald-knuth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/donald-knuth</a> somehow doesn’t sit well. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#knuth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tex</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#numberphile</a>

Mike LensiIf I'm really committed to the fact that there is no such thing as actual infinity - and I am: <a href="https://www.wisdomneverdies.com/blog/no-infinity" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wisdomneverdies.com/blog/no-infinity</a> - then there are no actual irrational numbers. By Kronecker's Theorem then, all apparently chaotic behavior is ultimately periodic. An interesting corollary 🙂 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/infinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infinity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cavendish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cavendish</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cantor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cantor</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Locke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Locke</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Aristotle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Aristotle</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Kronecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kronecker</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Diophantine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Diophantine</a>

Anna NicholsonUp and Atom has a nice video on number systems, and I was particularly intrigued to learn of number systems with imaginary or complex bases: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS40jPaogM4&t=508s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS40jPaogM4&t=508s</a>See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-base_system" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-base_system</a> for more of the mathematical nitty-gritty if you’re so inclined<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ComplexNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComplexNumbers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mathematics</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/counting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#counting</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tallying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tallying</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Babylonians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Babylonians</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a>

Mike LensiA fascinating conglomerate of countably infinite ordinals and the reals (themselves uncountable).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ordinal_number" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ordinal_number</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/infinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infinity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/omega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#omega</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Conway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conway</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a>

John Paul WohlscheidHere's something fun. A dual interview with Programming Visionaries Donald Knuth and Niklaus Wirth from 1985 - <a href="https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/interview-with-programming-visionaries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/interview-with-programming-visionaries</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PChistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PChistory</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Wirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wirth</a>

MarcNo 🇺🇸🎅📷My wife tried to dunk on me over on the <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/birdsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birdsite</a>. She thought I took "Algebraic Algorithms" on our honeymoon. It was <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Knuth</a>'s "The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms Vol 1". Sheeh, after 32 years you'd think she'd get it right.<a href="https://twitter.com/MarcNo/status/1607520554227040257" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/MarcNo/status/1607520554227040257</a>

Andrzej Wąsowski (moved away)Juicy things you can learn by reading the #texbook...

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