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0 pointsvarjag2y ago0 comments

There's hardly a chance that one would both (a) read through all of TAoCP and (b) not extract any value from that. The attention required to wade through the books can't be sustained if you have no interest.

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adastra222y ago

Well, I did read through it all and got zero value.

starcraft2wol2y ago

So what do you do with your combinatorics, math, and logic skills that you got from reading?

adastra222y ago

I’m not sure what you’re asking? I do a fair amount of algorithm development in my work. I’ve implemented C++ containers before.

I just learned what I needed for that from sources other than Knuth, and those sources did a better and more thorough job explaining it.

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adastra222y ago

Well, I did read through it all and got zero value.

starcraft2wol2y ago

So what do you do with your combinatorics, math, and logic skills that you got from reading?

adastra222y ago

I’m not sure what you’re asking? I do a fair amount of algorithm development in my work. I’ve implemented C++ containers before.

I just learned what I needed for that from sources other than Knuth, and those sources did a better and more thorough job explaining it.

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