People that write memos, articles, papers, blogs, or reports need to start off with a 2-sentence Wikipedia-style description of what it is that we&#x27;re looking at:<p><i>HAKMEM, alternatively known as AI Memo 239, is a February 1972 &quot;memo&quot; (technical report) of the MIT AI Lab containing a wide variety of hacks, including useful and clever algorithms for mathematical computation, some number theory and schematic diagrams for hardware — in Guy L. Steele&#x27;s words, &quot;a bizarre and eclectic potpourri of technical trivia&quot;. Contributors included about two dozen members and associates of the AI Lab. The title of the report is short for &quot;hacks memo&quot;.</i> -- Wikipedia<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m aware that further down the memo says, <i>&quot;Here is some little known data which may be of interest to computer hackers.&quot;</i> But that&#x27;s not very helpful; hackers might be interested in a lot of things like cryptography, space flight, electronics, and typesetting, just looking at the HN front page.