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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.
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)
Get out.
TeX has been adopted by W3 as the new HTML 6 standard.
TeX 3.15 will get released. Subsequently, the universe will collapse.
You must be Knuth here.
unless of course, your Albert Einstein, Galileo, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr, Ernst Ruska, or any number of other important members of the scientific community throughout the centuries. many of these people did not provide 'breakthroughs until well into there 30's, and most of them continued to provide useful advances in science well into there later years.
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
... Knuth migrated to Word 2010.
English is not my first language. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.
No, seriously - I've been working as a software engineer (...)
Ah, you are forgiven, then. You don't actually need to know anything about programming.
Makes me wonder why anyone would assume everyone on ./ knows who he is, what he's done, or why we should care what he has to announce...
Seriously? To draw a comparison, it's like being a geneticist and not knowing who Gregor Mendel is. Or a physicist/mathematician and drawing a blank when Sir Isaac Newton's name comes up. You could be a philosopher who has never heard of Aristotle or Plato. Or a FLOSS developer who has never heard of Richard Stallman. A game developer who has never heard of John Carmack. I could go on, but I'm not sure I could find a good stopping point and I'm fighting the impulse to just be insulting. Your ignorance is appalling. Please just smash your computer with a sledgehammer and go for a long walk on a short pier.
I talked to a guy in Saint Louis once who was a genetic engineer for Monsanto. He didn't believe in evolution.
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That he is a computer simulation fooling all of us for over 50 years...
I think you mean that we're all a computer simulation he has been running for over 50 years...
A proof that P=NP would have much more potential to genuine change things simply because it would disprove a ubiquitous assumption: that P NP. Historically, when universally popular assumptions have been proven wrong, the resulting paradigm shift in the way people think about the matter produces some fascinating changes. P!=NP would give closure to an open problem but would not be so earth-changing because we already operate under the assumption that the premise is true.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
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!
Not that surprising. Being capable of sustaining epic levels of cognitive dissonance would be needed to be able to work for Monsanto and sleep at night.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
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.
> Who is Knuth?
Some polar bear in a german zoo. People already go crazy when he doesn't speak, so yeah...imagine the earth-shakiness when he finally does!
u can't handle the Knuth.
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I talked to a guy in Saint Louis once who was a genetic engineer for Monsanto. He didn't believe in evolution.
Well, duh. You ask a guy who does "intelligent design" for a living whether he believes in evolution. ~
Yes it has, actually.
You just aren't equipped to recognize that fact.
I learned how to program outside of academia, and have read Knuth. Independent study should still involve some modicum of actual study.
Here it is
It's pathetic that you think nobody else can think for themselves or come up with their own ideas and breakthroughs.
Do you honestly think that you can come up with the kind of breakthroughs that have been done in CS over the past 60 years without reading some of the literature?
Sure, if you write some simple scripts or basic applications, you don't need to know much about algorithms, but once you start messing about with algorithms and datastructures, it pays to at least have heard of Knuth.