"All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth
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March 24, 2011
Presented by Donald Knuth.
ABSTRACT
Bill Coughran, senior vice president engineering at Google, hosts a Q&A session with Stanford Professor Donald Knuth.
More about Donald Knuth:
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/ 
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I am glad there is someone on this earth with qualified opinions
always want to get closer to the metal. Saves power and resources. Low-level programming will never die.
Great man!
LOL yes his comment about GPS coordinates and Google maps is perfect! Once I gave a helicopter pilot all the info I could get from google maps about where to drop my resupply package in remote location of California. This plan was foiled when he later told me Google maps and his GPS didn't work together. $15 per minute for a failed hour long flight... This speaker is wonderful over all.
thanks for the wide spectrum
loved it! i think mathematics is a kind of formalized logic and so is computer programming. so, while not the same thing in my family tree metaphor they are siblings or cousins.
anyone here after CORONA OUTBREAK
Donald fricking Knuth! Thanks so much Google!
33:55 GET YOUR HAND OFF YOUR POCKET WHEN YOU ARE TALKING TO MR.DONALD! :D
...most brilliant people are.
+WhoKilledRapMusik Richard Feynman wasn't awkward.
@StoneCypher Er, with respect to the bit at 14:20 or so, about substrings of the binary representation of integers being at least in one form always summable to a power of two. Sorry about the loss of context.
"Look in Volume 3 of the Art of Computer Programming in the index under 'Royalties, use of' it will take you to a page with a picture that looks like organ pipes". What no page number? Man, he knows his book inside out.
Agreed. Speech issues like that are symptomatic of someone who spends a great deal more time thinking about ideas than vocalizing them. They also suggest an unassuming and unpretentious personality who cares more about knowledge than about looking smooth. I don't know anybody who is familiar with Knuth and doesn't like or respect him.
@MrNightLifeLover I don't remember the bit about the weather...
Donald Knuth is undoubtedly a living legend. However, the improv Q&A in this video is not the best format to show his genious. If you're not already a fan, this won't impress you.
There is a single counterexample: zero.
There is no phrasing of 0 whose substrings may be added to any power of two (remember, 2^0 is 1, not 0.)
Don is so humorous
Holy crap. Like being in his Mind.
What kind of shirt, also?
@bigbold2 Hope they were taking notes ;)
D. Knuth!!!! Google rules and amazes me more each day.
Google: Can we have some mathematicians? Conway explaining monster moonshine would really really make me weep in joy.
-just a fanboy
Donald frickin Knuth in the room and look at all the people still tapping away on their notebooks. What would it take? The Queen of England?
@bigbold2 : lol, off with their laptops!
The Father of Programming
@arthas702 Your comment doesn't show evidence of any engagement of yours...
mm I have the same problem, but for the opposite reason
50:48 is the answer you’re looking for😊
If there were 10 people like me in the world, we wouldnt have time to read each others' books! :-) #AWESOMEQUOTE
Donald E. Knuth Surreal Mathematics changes the way Humans THINK...
It models Symbiotic, benign and parasitic Consequences and Actions.
It's the Universal Law of Correspondence - reCURSive recursive too!
27:50 “The Handbook of Integer Sequences - you can calculate
your way into the literature IF you can compute the first 6 terms of some
sequence - you’ll find if any other literature exists on the subject”
@bigbold2 not everybody has to share your reverence.
ow, Donald Knuth! Alghouth he is getting older and older and stuttering when he speak to others, I always think his is the god of computer science. Can anyone realize the The Art of Computer Programming if he isn't working on those books???
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stepping a step in the 4th dimension leaves a pair of smoking boots behind.
Knuth is my homeboy
did he come up with the software called latex?
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As mentioned before, he came up with TeX to beautify and organize mathematical equations/symbols. After a period of time, Leslie Lamport advanced TeX and it was thusly called LaTeX.
@lordjavathe3rd
I disagree. It's probably just that Knuth doesn't have good verbal skills and has some hearing problems due to his age. Also, programming and computer science are entirely different things. Knuth is not really a great programmer, he probably doesn't know how the high-level implementations of things work today but none of these matter because computer science is a field in mathematics and Knuth is the god of that field.
@bigbold2 Not everyone has to share your reverence.
@icosahedronman he is not nervous, he is old.
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كنت أرغب في قراءة كتاب عن تاريخ المرأة في فرنسا
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Google Maps GPS coordinates used to work ...
0b101
Wonder how the youtube closed captions algorithm would fare with this talk... ;-P
@bigbold2 You must be from england XD
@okosenkov true, but I think knuth got the joke
So, a guy at 29:25 mentioning about "Not scale very well". What an arrogant person. Who did he make fun of, himself? I'd like to see him scale well in 30 years from now.
There's nothing wrong with the mental construction his sentences, he's just having a bit of trouble with the physical act speaking (stuttering, incidentally, is usually a problem with muscle coordination and not verbal cognition). Think of Chomsky's competence/performance distinction.
There are videos on this site of W.V.O. Quine, and it must be admitted his speech is far less felicitous than his prose. Kripke and Minsky are also far from euphonious speakers. Clifford Stoll, one could go on...
I love him as a human being so dearly but can’t understand what he says. It pains me.
he is not nervous, he is old.
I like his writing better than his speaking, because of the stuttering, it gets hard to concentrate on the content, but I still have very deep respect for a man so smart, and still so friendly.
easy way to get GPS on google maps... right click area you want coords for, click "whats here" ..check search bar at top
@bigbold2 *cringes*
There is no Queen of England!
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@bigbold2 Donald Knuth > Queen of England. That certainly won't work ;)
second!!
So much resemblance with Warren Buffett.
Don Knuth has done more in 1 lifetime than many others could have done in 10 lifetimes... Why does he seem so nervous ???
icosahedronman it's not nervousness
sixth
brilliant man. he's really awkward though.
birthofthacool 82 They all are
first!
sorry, although not alghouth
Knuth looked really nervous, which was strange.
Not nervous. Stutter gets worse with age as you have to put in much energy to talk.
the OLD Guy stderring or is it b/c hes OLD
@patiencebear He is not a brilliant mathematician. In fact, he has not made any contributions to mathematics as far as I know. He is a computer scientist. Although I have to say that he is just as bad a lecturer as some famous mathematicians.
I can't understand a damned word he's saying.........