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▲ Knuth Reward Check(thomas-huehn.com)
33 points by Curiositry an hour ago | 11 comments
▲blatherard an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Images weren't loading for me, here's a Wayback Machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20260412143311/https://www.thoma...

▲CurtHagenlocher 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The biggest shame of my life is that I had one of these and somehow managed to lose it.

▲assumed_throwaw 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What a brilliant teaching technique, think of how many people studied his work for bounties that they would never cash.

▲jacquesm 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

▲janvdberg 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Awesome! I know the feeling, I have two myself. https://x.com/loginn/status/1367475093719416833

(Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)

▲mococa 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know a guy (ricbit) who have 4 or more

▲jdw64 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

But what's the most Reward checks anyone has ever held?

▲jacquesm 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

Top entry:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html

▲jdw64 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

thanks!