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Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219

Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219

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Physically Based Rendering

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“they're just wonderful”
“they should also look up this book by called physically based rendering by matt farr and anyway it got an academy award”— guest
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The Art of Computer Programming

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“father of algorithm analysis author of the art of computer programming creator of tech that led to late tech”— Lex Fridman
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Surreal Numbers

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“i changed the name to surreal numbers that so this book is now published as surreal number”— guest

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On Beyond Zebra

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“there's a book by dr seuss called on beyond zebra and he gave a name to that”— guest
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The Man from St. Petersburg

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“it was by ken follett and it was called the man from saint petersburg but it but but it was talking about the prequel to world war one”— guest
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On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins (inferred)

“there was this book machine intelligence or unintelligent on intelligence yeah bill atkinson was a total devotee of that book”— guest