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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is That a Computer Problem?
"I used to do all nighters. I would just stay up all night and it would be done on Tuesday morning," he says. "My first program didn't take account for the fact that I would have to punch more than one card" His second program was converted from a binary number to decimal numbers. He's also worked with Rodney Brooks, who once told him about his fear of Don Knuth.
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