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Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth’s TAOCP
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered i
The Riven Diffs
Seeing Riven (1997) Differently
Formulaic Delimiters in The Iliad and The Odyssey
This is the third installment in my series on delimiters in languages. During my middle school studies, I was introduced to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. This year, I decided to revisit these epics and a
The Riven (1997) Navigator
A New Way to Explore the Original Riven
Model Collapse and the Need for Human-Generated Training Data
(All opinions herein are solely our own and do not express the views or opinions of our employer.) Generative AI is poisoning its own well: online content is increasingly generated by AI; this data is used to train new models; those models then gener...
The Myst Graph, 4: What's Next?
ℹ I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting the Myst Graph at Mysterium Con 2025, in Atlanta, GA, on August 2nd. This will be an opportunity to discuss the project’s methodology and findings with fellow Myst enthusiasts. You can view the ful...
The Myst Graph, 3: Creating the Graph Using DeMystify
The Myst Graph is generated by DeMystify, now an open source Go program: github.com/glthr/DeMystify. This third article focuses on the implementation details and shares suggestions for further enhancement. As the article evolves, it will be updated b...
The Myst Graph, 2: Revealing New Findings
Introduction Previous analyses of Myst’s source code have indicated that some assets are not seen in the game, such as Catherine’s crumpled note and the opened music box in the Mechanical Age. Also, the analysis of commented-out scripts indicates the...
