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Have you heard Knuth speak? He's full of "um's" and "ah's". (Neil is fantastic; I only brought it up because I'm someone who uses a lot of "um's" and "ah's",
by palish 15y ago
Have you heard Knuth speak? He's full of "um's" and "ah's".
(Neil is fantastic; I only brought it up because I'm someone who uses a lot of "um's" and "ah's", which tends to give people the impression that I'm dim. So it gave me hope to find out that even the great Knuth suffers from it too.)
- mahcuz 15y agoIsn't Knuth 150 years old though?
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- bumbledraven 15y agoThe point is that Neil's normal, extemporaneous speech achieves a degree of economy, accuracy and information-richness that most of us can only approach in writing, and then only after careful editing.