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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Humor Good in Comments?
I always thought a little bit of humor is good. It shows personality. It shows character shows, wit and fun. I mean, it's really, each century invents a different kind of humor too. And then also, as you said, wit and humor. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, a couple of days ago, I received a wonderful present from my former editor at ass and Wesley. He found all the internal files about the art of computer programming from the 1960s. They had written to early guinea pigs who were telling them whether they they should publish or not. But now he realized that posterity is a bit too much for him to handle so he sent it
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