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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
Don't Hold Off Decisions When You Can
One of the great principles of computer science is, is laziness or whatever you call it, late binding. You know, don't hold off decisions when you can. And I'm glad if it makes people think about stuff because I, you know, but it applies in another sense too. That is, sometimes I will do optimization in a way that does help the actual running time, but makes the program impossible to change next week. Because I've changed my data structure or something that made it less adaptable.
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