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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Linux

I use Ubuntu Linux on a standalone laptop with no internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between the machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics, but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. There's a lot of really subtle Nobel Prize class creation of intellectual property in there. With patents, you get a limited time to... The idea of patents is that you publish so that it's not a trans-secret.

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