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A Very Bad Estimator (with Donald Knuth) – Numberphile
A Very Bad Estimator (with Donald Knuth) – Numberphile Podcast
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Donald Knuth is unquestionably a legend of computer science and mathematics – but he is bad at estimation and grew up with a “rhinoceros attitude”.
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Man I love your podcast just hoped they would be longer 2-3 hrs
in the 1970s I spent a long time implementing the normalizing divide . I could shift over up to five leading zeroes after a subtract iteration. I made five bit slice shifter subtractor in s 244 two input nand gate array.
I have heard two uses of a "rhinocerous attitude".
One definition is an attitude of charging in before knowing all the facts. It is a tendency to attack a problem first and deal with the details or consequences later. It is the character belonging to the first to jump to action, following the call to “do it first, apologize later” or “it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.”
The other definition is an attitude of resiliency, a persistence and will to succeed in face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. It is a confident attitude that can not accept the phrase ”it cannot be done”.
I have been accused of both of these rhinoceros attitudes.
Nice to hear from Don Knuth again. Peace and grace, sir.
Thanks Don for giving us the love-to-hate Tex language lol.
Oh what a joy to have stumbled upon this interview! I guess I HAVE to check the rest out now too!
You find such INTERESTING people to talk to. Thank you.
A lot of people want to pronounce the "g" in Kernighan too, which, if I understand correctly, it's silent. (as in, the coauthor of The C Programming Language)
Godfather???… never heard if him. … You Mean Alan Turing…not this old geezer… ridiculous podcast
The best Knuth interview I've ever heard!
(But please recommend others you think are as good or better.)
20:00 I was waiting for him to talk about his graphs of square root functions! It's so cool.
I don't usually listen to podcasts because they are too long.
But this one with Donald Knuth, I couldn't pass.
Brilliant interview. Knuth is a gift to humanity and Brady is a gift to journalism.
Nice interview. The Windows 95 screensaver video was a riot, by which I mean it was violent and chaotic.
I just ordered Knuth 4.b aka combinatorial algorithms vol 2
Golden ratio base ("phinary") is an interesting number system he didn't mention
I am not sure that I am the only one, but the old win screensaver (labyrinth) is making me sick. Literally, it triggers my motion sickness. If there is more people like that, can you avoid it in future posts, please?
Funny how he is drawn to the absolute certainty you get in math and computer science, while also holding strong religious beliefs.
The video part is a complete waste of traffic. Please use static images instead.
I'm so looking forward to hearing this tomorrow — need to get some sleep first, sigh.
Hope you didn't have a streak of toothpaste on your face this time Brady
This has been the most inspiring and revealing interview I've ever heard. By "revealing", I mean about life and the wider universe.
Stunned. Thank you so much.
I was already out of my mind after seeing who is on the podcast today! I adore this man.
Hmm, on ChatGpt being better at writing than its training data… I recall a finding that a large number of estimates (how many peas in the jar style) make a quite good average, even if some guessed are terrible. This kind of effect doesn't always happen, but it does seem to in some cases.
Early innoceent Twitter was understood as a flow of each message flawed and insignificant but with the emergent effect of insight (something like that),
A common comment on at least some AI is that we really don't understand it fully.
Something can, it seems, happen at a certain scale that isn't obvious beforehand, the philosophy of quantity vs quality is not settled.
🤔
So – does he sometimes spell his middle initial Epsilon (because he can)?
Surreal numbers 😊
Too busy tripping on the WordArt and retro Windows screensavers to pay attention to the conversation.
Thank you Donnie
Thanks for TeX bro
The faith part just killed me.
As a person of faith, I would love to hear more interviews with smart people of faith and how it has impacted their academic career. His comments about feeling like he had to defend himself saying that he's not one of the crack pots on Christian TV was very interesting.
wonderful interview!
That was fantastic.
As always, I love the content .. but the video background on this one triggers my "bad/dangerous video" reflex, and I am only moderately sensitive to such problems, so I'd request that you change it. Sorry to have to report that
Thank you