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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by smitty1e on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:40PM (#33088103)
For the Christian, reading the Bible is internally transformative.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by gumby on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:26PM (#33089863)
This is also an important topic for Knuth and he has published a book on the subject (which I have not read nor discussed with him as the topic is of zero interest to me).

OK, even though the bible doesn't interest me, we once went through the score of the Fantasia Apocalyptica together and it was useful that I knew enough of the bible to discuss some references. There are also musical "puzzles" or clues in the score a few of which I was lucky enough to catch so I didn't come off as a complete dufus.

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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by smitty1e on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:45PM (#33102645)
"Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"?

Highly recommended. Also, "3:16".

These are about the operating system of the soul.

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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by tengwar2 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:56AM (#33096379)
I did like the fact that he led a Bible study in January - on the Book of Numbers. Does that count as an addition to semi-numerical algorithms?
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by User23 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:15PM (#33089154)
For example: https://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/08957...
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by Koshkin on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:09PM (#33090188)
I was expecting to see 3:14 on the cover!
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by smitty1e on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:46PM (#33102650)
Always with the pi-ous jokes...
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by HyperSane on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:54PM (#33090539)
God is strangely obsessed with foreskins.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by chungy on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:12PM (#33090673)
The law of circumcision was done away with in Jesus. It's sad that many Christians still practice it.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by ngcc_hk on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:28AM (#33096013)
Not really. It is Paul. The debate was there and the dominate one is peter-james Jerusalem group. Paul actually lost if you read between the lines. Only later as that branch was sort of kill of and Pauline Christianity with the Hugh gentile group won. Then no Jewish law
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by k_pres on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:46AM (#33092499)
Disgust of the human body is a recurring theme in Judaism
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by claudiawerner on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:17PM (#33123343)
Likewise for the Marxist reading Capital! (Especially Vol. 3)
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