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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by mymythisisthis on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:21PM (#31483747)
Do you have quick summary of Knuth stating this? Just want to know, curious.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by copperx on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:22PM (#31483765)
He has indeed said that, I can confirm that much. It should be easy to find in one in the interviews.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by bigcat12345678 on Monday May 23, 2022 @07:48PM (#31486265)
In addition to the other post in this thread mention that it's time consuming to go through the list.

Fundamentally, that work can be saved by the original author spend negligible amount of energy to provide the reference.

When I see people hiding information, or forgot to provide links, I am thinking a bit of human intellectual energy is wasted for no good reason...

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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by drekipus on Monday May 23, 2022 @04:32PM (#31484466)
Yes it should be easy to find in 50+ hours of video content.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by gkop on Monday May 23, 2022 @06:00PM (#31485335)
He doesn’t have to state this. Look at his work.
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