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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
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Donald Knuth is a computer scientist, Turing Award winner, father of algorithm analysis, author of The Art of Computer Programming, and creator of TeX. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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() – Introduction
() – First programs
() – Literate programming
() – Beauty in programming
() – OpenAI
() – Optimization
() – Consciousness
() – Conway’s game of life
() – Stable marriage
() – Richard Feynman
() – Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm
() – Hardest problem
() – Open source
() – Favorite symbols
() – Productivity
() – Meaning of life
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