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Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Podcast About Computer Science?

Slashdot 26 Feb 2023

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes. They say "always be learning" — but do podcasts actually help? I've been trying to find podcasts that discuss programming, and I've enjoyed Lex Fridman's interviews with language creators like Guido van Rossum, Chris Lattner, and Brendan Eich (plus his long interviews with Donald Knuth) ... .

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nbdev v2 review: Git-friendly Jupyter Notebooks

InfoWorld 01 Feb 2023

There are many ways to go about programming. One of the most productive paradigms is interactive ... Donald Knuth’s literate programming paradigm prescribes writing the documentation and code in the same document, with the documentation aimed at humans interspersed with the code intended for the computer.

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100+ Insomnia Quotes for When Those Long, Restless Nights Feel Like They'll Never End

The Post and Courier 29 Dec 2022

Quotes for when you're sick of counting sheep. Millions of individuals live with insomnia. In fact, the condition—which makes it difficult to fall asleep, stay asleep, and/or causes you to wake up early—is very common ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... “The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done.” — Donald Knuth.

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Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees

Slashdot 25 Dec 2022

Like a visit from an old friend, it's Donald Knuth's annual Christmas tree lecture for 2022 ... 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of that fateful day in 1962 when a 24-year-old Donald Knuth started writing " The Art of Computer Programming." Now approaching his 85th birthday, Knuth has ...

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LaVonne Knuth

The Grand Island Independent 11 Dec 2022

LaVonne Knuth. Please honor LaVonne Knuth for ... She married Donald Knuth on Dec.

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'Linux IP Stacks Commentary' Book Tries Free Online Updates

Slashdot 17 Sep 2022

We are publishing Elements of Programming in two forms ... Thanks to the work of Professor Donald Knuth (thank you!) on his WEB and CWEB programming languages, I have made modifications, to devise a method for integrating code from the GIT repository of the Linux kernel without making any modifications (let alone submissions) to said kernel code ... .

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Museum Restores 21 Rare Videos from Legendary 1976 Computing Conference

Slashdot 12 Jun 2022

At Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, the senior curator just announced the results of a multi-year recovery and restoration process. making available 21 never-before-seen video recordings of a legendary 1976 conference. ... Among the speakers.. - A young Donald Knuth on the early history of programming languages ... .

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A bigger piece of the pi: Finding the 100-trillionth digit

Google Blog 08 Jun 2022

The 100-trillionth decimal place of π (pi) is 0 ... The results were in and it was a new record ... Computer scientist Donald Knuth wrote "human progress in calculation has traditionally been measured by the number of decimal digits of π" in his book “The Art of Computer Programming” (Dr. Knuth even wrote about me in the book) ... So, like I said ... .

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Can you solve it? The magnificent Grabarchuks, Ukraine’s puzzle family

The Guardian 04 Apr 2022

Computer science legend Donald Knuth says that Serhiy Grabarchuk, the father of the clan, “has my vote as the world’s ...

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Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 23, 2022

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 23 Jan 2022

Patty Yanniruberto sold property at 1119 Clifton Road to Danielle Mitsch for $328,000. Estate of William Rodgers sold property at 584 Clifton Road to Evan Edward Lloyd II and Kelly Marie Gibson for $250,000 ... Donald Knuth sold property at 738 Lucy Drive to Thomas Smith for $245,000 ... to Donald Templeton for $275,000 ... to Kathy Roth for $199,000 ... NVR Inc.

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Joe Santoro: Ken Wilson and the return of Chris Ault

Nevada Appeal 15 Dec 2021

We didn’t think Doug Knuth had it in him ... But Knuth and Ault made it very clear last week that Wilson is the newest Pack coach because that is what Ault wanted ... Do you think Ault really wanted to sit on a plane to Hawaii, let alone a bus to Fresno or San Jose State? So Knuth did the next best thing by hiring Ault’s doppelganger.

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Trump airs old election grievances in return to rally stage

The Gazette Cedar Rapids 27 Jun 2021

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds, Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Wellington, Ohio ... Scott Knuth gives a thumbs-up as he waits for former President Donald Trump to speak at a rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds, Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Wellington, Ohio.

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Moshe Vardi wins Knuth Prize

Jewish Herald Voice 27 May 2021

Rice University’s Moshe Vardi has won the 2021 Donald E. Knuth Prize, one of theoretical computer science’s most prestigious annual awards ... The Knuth Prize includes a $10,000 award and is given annually to one person for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time.

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