| ▲ | 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? | |||||||||||||||||
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