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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by gkop on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:37PM (#31485080)
(In his digestive summaries, Knuth does provide citations, to be clear)
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by maxerickson on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:48PM (#31485193)
I guess I don't understand why someone would make the contrary assumption about famous academic work.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by JJMcJ on Monday May 23, 2022 @09:02PM (#31486817)
His citation lists at the back of each book are immense.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by gkop on Monday May 23, 2022 @06:00PM (#31485332)
For sure, also I don’t assume people know much about Knuth or expectations for academic work.
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