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The transcript of a Donald Knuth interview in 2006
17 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2010-05-31 · latest 2024-07-26
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…you know, and are bombarded with responsibilities, and then they would produce better research?" https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
comment by senderista · 2024-07-26 · in Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture -
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Donald Knuth Interview 2006story by pabs3 · 2022-10-05 · 0 comments
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…Knuth Part 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqPPll3uDa0 Plus.. "Donald Knuth Interview 2006": https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 "An Interview with Donald Knuth": https://www.ntg.nl/maps/16/14.pdf "Interview with Donald…
comment by belter · 2022-05-23 · in Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020) -
…history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeiuVNDQg4k&list=PLVV0r6CmEs... — transcript (thanks to https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 ): > Some people from Thompson Ramo Wooldridge approached me and said, Don, we understand that…
comment by svat · 2020-06-14 · in Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979) -
…it after he actually finished driving to the other side of the continent where the computer was. https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006#27---writing-...
comment by kragen · 2019-06-16 · in Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011) -
…in 97 short parts https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1Jq... , transcript ( https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 ) * 2007, interview by Ed Feigenbaum, 3 hours ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp7GAKLSGnI ) +…
comment by svat · 2019-04-18 · in Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video] -
…He claims if the programs he first saw were too good, he wouldn't have bothered with programming: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006/blob/master/R... "I read the manuals that came from IBM, and it had; the manuals had example…
comment by hackermailman · 2019-03-26 · in Learning from Code vs. Plagiarism -
…How could Audrey Hepburn possibly look so beautiful after the sixth take, you know? (Thanks to https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 for transcribing the videos.)
comment by svat · 2018-12-18 · in The Electronic Coach (1959) [video] -
…[1] http://authenticinquirymaths.blogspot.pt/2015/11/maths-in-sc... . [2] Transcript from here: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
comment by joaorico · 2018-12-17 · in The Yoda of Silicon Valley -
…from doing more of the stuff everyone knows they should do but don't. If you read this interview ( https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 ) with Knuth, he talks about how he was nervous he wouldn't be able to learn calculus so just…
comment by stenecdote · 2018-02-27 · in Nobody's just reading your code -
…it's 500 pages long it takes me a year and a half. So its just normal to read it very slowly. [0] - https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
comment by e19293001 · 2016-10-09 · in Ask HN: Any recommendations on resources for learning one algorithm a day? -
…[1] http://authenticinquirymaths.blogspot.pt/2015/11/maths-in-sc... [2] Transcript from here: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
comment by joaorico · 2016-09-07 · in Donald Knuth speaks about his life [video] -
…was just unreadable, so in 2010 I put the transcript on GitHub and started reformatting it: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 Pull requests welcome!
comment by kragen · 2016-09-07 · in Donald Knuth speaks about his life [video] -
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Transcript of a Donald Knuth interview (2006)story by e19293001 · 2015-11-22 · 6 comments
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…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
comment by zerovox · 2011-12-25 · in Donald Knuth shares his life's story -
…anyone interested in the man; I imported it into Git and started formatting it into paragraphs at https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006 , although I haven't finished. I think it would be worthwhile for more people to (a) clone the…
comment by kragen · 2011-08-01 · in The Art of Computer Programming (interview with Don Knuth) -
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Donald Knuth Interview 2006story by fogus · 2010-05-31 · 0 comments