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Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Donald Knuth is planning to make an 'earthshaking announcement' on Wednesday, at TeX's 32nd Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know what it is. So far speculation ranges from proving P!=NP, to a new volume of The Art of Computer Programming, to his retirement. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever has been ported to MMIX?" Let the speculation begin.
Who is Knuth?
He's discovered Wu Tang and Shaolin are one and the same.
Probably that Duke Nukem Forever won't be running any dedicated servers...
Step #2: Solve for N:
So P!=NP,
therefore P!/P=N,
thus the Ps cancel and we are left with N=!.
Step #3: ???
Step #4: Profit!
Tired of my customary (Score:1)
TeX has been adopted by W3 as the new HTML 6 standard.
TeX 3.15 will get released. Subsequently, the universe will collapse.
... Knuth migrated to Word 2010.
English is not my first language. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.
I speculate it'll be something as earth shattering as the "it" announcement was, or how every person has a Segway in their home now.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
He has a deal with the mysterious British agency known as the Laundry. He doesn't publish the fourth volume and they don't render him metabolically inactive. Don't any of you pay attention to what Charlie Stross has to say?
That he is a computer simulation fooling all of us for over 50 years...
TeX to ship with iPhone.
If the boobs didn't do it, a mathematical proof won't either. :P
He's obviously figured out an algorithm to predict earthquakes, and he's determined that one will happen during or just after his presentation! And, of course, he'll announce it.
You need to think more literally!
My name is Donald Knuth. And if you study with my 8 week program, you will learn a system of self defense that I developed over two seasons of fighting in the octagon! Its called Don Kwan Do!
He proves P != NP.
Due to limitations with TeX can't be bothered to fit it into the margins
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
It's highly unlikely to be P!=NP
Ok, what about P=NP, then?
sic transit gloria mundi
Here it is
It's Claude, you insensitive claud.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Now I'm working on a IT-department: those type of women would encourage it, but I do not want those women for other reasons.
"His name was James Damore."
around the same level of recognition as Dijkstra, I would say.
Bah. Knuth wrote volumes of books full of algorithms. I can't think of a single algorithm that Dijkstra ever came up with.
Badass Resumes
Given that Knuth was actually replaced by a self-aware TeX macro some years ago, there is no reason to expect an future productivity decline...