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

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Is There a Good Heuristic?

"At any one moment, there's a set of tasks that you can do," he says. "If I do something else first, I'll be able to do that one better." He adds: "I just finished a pretty tough part of the book ... and so now I'm doing the parts that are more fun"

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