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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Game of Life
Do you think technically, some of the ideas that you use for analysis of algorithms can be used to analyze the game of life? Can we make sense of it or is it too weird? Yeah. I've got I've got a dozen exercises in volume. And for Fastical Six, that actually worked rather well for that purpose. But Bill Gossppers came up with the algorithm that allows Golly to run thousands and thousands of times faster.
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