3:16
Bible texts illuminated
by Donald Knuth · first published 1991
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My favorite book from Knuth isn't computer-related at all. 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated https://smile.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089...
on “The Yoda of Silicon Valley” ↗> You can safely ignore it, the document is just a summary of Knuth's book. Knuth is a Lutheran, by the way (uh-oh). He even wrote 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated[1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/08957...
Don Knuth is a Christian, as he sometimes mentions in talks or things he's written. He also wrote this book which discusses each 3:16 verse in the bible http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089579...
on “Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition” ↗For example: https://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/08957...
Probably Donald Knuth's book "3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated" where Knuth goes through chapter 3, verse 16, of most books in the Bible. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/316.html http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089579...…
on “Knuth 3:16 (2002)” ↗…interesting to note that Adobe predates the Mac. An interesting bit of Adobe pre-history was that Donald Knuth used a pre-release version of PhotoShop at Adobe headquarters when he was putting together his book 3:16. He had it running on multiple Macs each processing a different scanned calligraphic rendering of a verse because the size of the image files was such that processing was painfully slow. One interesting…
on “Adobe's 40th anniversary: Its origin story and beyond” ↗Donald Knuth used a pre-release version of Photoshop (at Adobe headquarters after the employees had gone home for the day) to process the images for his book 3:16. He was using multiple Macs to parallelize his process, and there were frequent crashes. This was back in the days of Macs with 512K of RAM which makes your 128MB Mac seem positively capacious by comparison.
Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/08957...
on “Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald E. Knuth” ↗