That's why they always teach: "never compare floats for equality."
Or maybe they don't teach that anymore, I dunno.
See link for the Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic: All floating point arithmetic operations are exact up to a relative error of epsilon_machine.
There is still hope for a compiler book. From Knuth's website:
> And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said.
> AI agents will soon be processing payroll, placing orders, paying suppliers, creating policies, sending out contracts, creating marketing materials, answering customer questions, analyzing profitability, filling out compliance forms, reconciling accounts and posting on social media.
One problem with "literate programming" is it assumes that good coders are also good writers, and the good writers are also good coders.
Another problem is that the source files for the production code will have to be "touched" for documentation changes. Which IMHO is an absolution no-no for production code. Once the code has been validated, no more edits! If you want to edit docs, go ahead, just don't edit the actual source.
I think to remember something, you have to replay it in your mind from time to time. The more you do that, the more you remember. (Reminiscing is probably the right word).
I guess differentiator between the "style" of memories is your personality and what you dwell on.
So (in theory) you could hear the chirp of merging black holes, if they were close enough.
In fact, everyone on the planet would hear the same chirp. Someone should comb the historical records (or even, mythologies) for a birdless chirp heard by many people.
I asked AI what Einstein would be working on today if he were alive, the result was a predictably rosy scenario of modern physics problems.
However the reality was that Einstein (in his later years) became isolated from physics developments.