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418 I'm a teapot

neat! more info on LFSRs, fyi: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1309.php

>and then had Claude run git status and it fell back to Opus as if I had just broken into the pentagon itself.

Maybe it's more like you asked a lieutenant to check the weather forecast for you, and it went away and sent back a sergeant in its place.

Congratulations! Wow, you got a legendary $2.56 check....

Unfortunately, one no longer gets physical checks, instead, one gets an account in The Bank of the Island of San Seriffe:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html

(unfortunately, I have yet to find another typo since getting my $2.88 for _Digital Typography_)

Close enough. If I ever got such a check it would be professionally framed and hung on my wall. As would most people reading this.

I have at least one Knuth check¹ from the days when they were actual checks, but to be honest, I’m not 100% sure where it (they?) are. I’m on the mailing list where potential TeX-related bugs appear and it’s crazy the level of detail people go to in looking for any remaining bugs in that software.

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1. I know at least one of these came from porting lesser-known utilities to VM/CMS. By that time, DEK already had adopted a practice of having his secretary print his emails and he’d hand-write a reply and you’d get it in the mail.

Most people reading this would be hung on your wall?

After being framed, of course. You need to have a justification.

I heard philipallstar and sandbach were doing treason.

@bluGill, you owe me some money or this framing won't be professional. ;)

Wait, I thought I was going to frame you, but it turns out you're you're blackmailing me. I don't have to frame you anymore. I have evidence of a real crime.

This is some very unprofessional framing.

You still get a physical piece of paper that looks like a check; it's just not a valid check.

It can still be cashed in, though not in any bank, you need to contact Knuth beforehand.

For me it will stay framed on the wall.

I wonder if one can do the reverse? Turn in a physical check and get an account?

But but... that's all serif.

Hopefully framed it and put it on the wall.

>by implying that situational awareness directly caused losses at JS.

Correlation is not causation.

Well, they did because JS owned a economics interest in SA, which led to the loss. So it was poor capital allocation, but really a systemic failure to delete leverage from the equation.

> Of course you will see it, the same way you saw a lot of Arial in the 1990s, or Calibri today.

Well, that didn't last long; Aptos enters the chat.

Came here to say this too. :-)

Thanks OP for making it so readable.

Ten Little Algorithms, Part 2: The Single-Pole Low-Pass Filter (https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/779.php)

OT but I've always appreciated your posts, Jason -- you should think about expanding them into a book, or at least an e-book. It would end up on my shelf next to Lyons.

That being said, it'd be good to update this post to clarify the difference between angular frequency and plain old cycles-per-second frequency, as one of the commenters calls out.

OK so this article is sort of about formal proof automation, but it seems more practically about Zstandard, which I very much enjoyed reading.

Yeah, this is really cool. I'm now deep in the rabbit hole of FSE encoding and ANS & tANS. The last time I poked my head in here, range encoding and arithmetic encoding were the state of the art for fractional entropy representations, but they both sucked. This is a million times better and so simple that I feel like I should have invented it myself.

Could you please use a more readable variable-width font?