Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219
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In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, Donald Knuth reflects on his early programming experiences at Caltech in 1957 using an IBM 650 mainframe that operated with decimal machine language rather than binary bits. His first program factored numbers by punching instructions onto cards and debuggi …