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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by kragen on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @12:31PM (#33082773)
TAOCP is not job training now, if it ever was; that is trying to get the cart to pull the horse.

The point of a job, unless you're lucky enough to get a job where you can change the world, is to pay your living expenses so that you have the leisure to do things like read TAOCP and write Sudoku solvers. If that's not your idea of an enjoyable vacation, don't read it; you'll regret it.

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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by dyingkneepad on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:42PM (#33084825)
Writing a decent Sudoku solver takes just a few hours... I did this last year in order to refresh my memory on how Ruby worked. Reading TAOCP would take a few more hours than that.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by lupire on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:00PM (#33085904)
Luckily, you are more than a few hours from death.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by Rioghasarig on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @01:10AM (#33091517)
You don't know that.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by personalidea on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:05PM (#33114099)
Neither do you. Probably.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by openfuture on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:15PM (#33084449)
The world changes through the collective effort of the people who inhabit it. Not because some demigod wrote a script.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by kragen on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:48PM (#33085741)
Mostly the world changes due to unpredictable emergent phenomena, but occasionally you do get intentional changes as well. But intention is individual, not collective; there's no such thing as collective intention. At best you have many people's intentions in agreement. Rarely does that arise in a workplace.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by psychoslave on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:08AM (#33092652)
What do you mean with "collective intention"? A person intention is the result of collective effort of its neurons. Things like collective representations and collective unconscious are well established concepts.

Whether these things positively exists outside of one mental experiment is an other matter, but so is the notion of individual and self.

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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by kragen on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:00AM (#33092999)
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by bo1024 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:26PM (#33084604)
The one can be a special case of the other...
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