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Donald Knuth shares his life's story
- aurelianito 15y agoIs there anywhere a text-only version? I really prefer written words to videos.
- agumonkey 15y agoEspecially with Mister Knuth, he's borderline stuttering sometimes; hard to follow.
- baddox 15y agoThat's not borderline. He certainly has a stutter. I've seen it in all the videos I've ever seen of him. It's a shame seeing someone with such an impressive mind having trouble expressing himself verbally.
- agumonkey 15y agoHis vocal system can't handle his own brain bandwidth I guess.
- donald_draper 15y agoHe uses his brain and language so effectively that some parts of the sentence can actually be used as padding.
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- zerovox 15y agoIf you register, you can view the transcript, but unfortunately it is broken up by video so you can't view the whole thing. And it's unedited, so the stuttering is part of the text. Edit: Knew I had seen the full text somewhere, managed to find this: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
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- abecedarius 15y agoSome of us are hard of hearing.
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- TheRevoltingX 15y agoMr. Knuth is a personal hero of mine both as a programmer and as a Christian. He's pretty awesome.
- cristoperb 15y agoI received a copy of "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" for Christmas last year, but haven't read it yet (and it's almost been a whole year!) Is that something you've read? and if so, would you recommend it?
- dicroce 15y agoI have it... I enjoyed it, but it's not this great eye opening religious / philosophical piece. It's mostly a fairly personal story regarding a particular religious project of his...
- TheRevoltingX 15y agoNope sorry, I've only read pieces of his Art of CS book, but I'm also interested in reading 3:16 which I plan on ordering soon. It's supposed just pick out the verse number 3:16 from every book and join it with any history or texts associated with it. Kinda like sampling.
- langsamer 15y agoHe reveals quite a bit of his character and interests in his seminal Art of Computing series. It's a great read for both it's content and it's prose.
- veyron 15y agoThe correct word here is "its", not "it's"
- softbuilder 15y agoFirst "it's" is fine. Please submit a patch in the form of a regular expression.
- veyron 15y agoin a case sensitive regular expression replacement, all of the it's should be corrected to its. I agree that the It's is correct, but most regex engines are case sensitive
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- xxpor 15y agoAs a current EECS student at Case, this is really interesting. Thanks!