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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

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Why Did You Want Brain Three to Learn?

"It was just exciting to me to be able to control something," he says. "I mean, I didn't, I was pretty much a machine." He also mentioned that during those years, there was discussion about inspired by touring about computation and what is computation. But it's a tinkering mindset, not a philosophical mindset", the engineer adds.

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