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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Big Bang Theory

Stanford professor says there's a whole theory out there waiting to be discovered that we haven't ever thought about. He started looking at this to make it quantitative and the basic problem was to slow down the big bang so that I could watch it happening. "I think I can explain it actually in fairly elementary terms, even without writing a formula"

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