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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Wrong Place for Optimization?
I tend to think that most people have the desire and the capacity to be good to each other. And love will ultimately win out. I'm losing my confidence that human beings are rational. But, but, but if we knew that it was spending 80% of his time in the comments card, you know, in 10 minutes, we could make the program run more than fast. Yeah. It's incredibly amazing. We don't know how it works. And there's millions of brilliant people involved in building a small part of that. And it doesn't go wrong - often enough for us to suffer. In a sub often subopt them away. Oh, absolutely. The kind of things
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