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

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

Lex Fridman Podcast vor 5 Jahren

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Donald Knuth is a computer scientist, Turing Award winner, father
of algorithm analysis, author of The Art of Computer Programming,
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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(07:02) – First programs

(30:26) – Literate programming

(33:35) – Beauty in programming

(39:30) – OpenAI

(48:41) – Optimization

(54:46) – Consciousness

(1:03:29) – Conway’s game of life

(1:16:16) – Stable marriage

(1:19:35) – Richard Feynman

(1:30:29) – Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm

(1:40:02) – Hardest problem

(1:57:41) – Open source

(2:02:54) – Favorite symbols

(2:12:27) – Productivity

(2:20:08) – Meaning of life