Nick Drozd

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Mostly thoughts about programming. Maybe other stuff too.

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I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00

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Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who is so committed to the correctness of his books that he offers one US hexadecimal dollar ($2.56, 0x$1.00) for any “bug” found in his books, where a bug is anything that is “technically, historically, typographically, or politically incorrect”. I wanted to get a Knuth check for…

Maybe the spaghetti code conjecture is false

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The Spaghetti Code Conjecture says that Busy Beaver programs ought to be, in some sense, as complicated as possible. Scott Aaronson puts it this way: