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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Is the Tic-Tac-Toe Program?

The tic-tac-toe program is interesting on many levels, but one of them is that it had some, you can call machine learning in it. I don't know how long it's going to be before the name of our field has changed from computer science to machine learning, but anyway, it was my first experience with machine learning. So, here we had. How does the program, well, what is the problem you were solving? What are we talking about? And then, how was it designed? Right.

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