Re: The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times

2019-01-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 09:47, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > And he has some unusual hobbies not mentioned in the NYT article: How > many people do you know that have a pipe organ designed for and built in > their home? https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html I seem vaguely to remember t

Re: The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times

2018-12-23 Thread scott Ford
Being creative and liking music in my opinion is common in many of the computer people I have worked with over many years. It’s also as both of you have mentioned interesting.. Scott On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 9:47 AM Joel C. Ewing wrote: > On 12/22/18 10:27 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > > Donald Knu

Re: The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times

2018-12-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 12/22/18 10:27 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his > opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.” > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html > > > ...plenty here on computers, pr

The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times

2018-12-22 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html ...plenty here on computers, programming, mathematics, typesetting. I've forever ha