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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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A Little Humor Is OK

I think it's important to know that this is part of life and it should be fun and not. And so, you know, I wrote this organ composition, which is based on the Bible, but I didn't refrain from putting little jokes in it. In fact, in Volume Two, I've got a cryptogram, a message in cipher. You're going to have to break an RSA key, which is larger than people know how to break. But somebody will figure out what this message is and they will laugh.

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