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NPR on Donald Knuth

I was greeted this morning to an excellent interview with Donald Knuth on NPR… Did you know that his kitchen is designed using principles of graph theory?   Apparently everything wants to be next to the trash can… Amazing stuff..  Maybe Knuth should do a book on interior design when he is done with  The Art of Computer Programming  reference books. ;-)

 

Published 14 March 05 06:57 by BradA
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# J. Daniel Smith said on March 14, 2005 8:11 AM:
No, don't get him sidetracked again! :-)
# Alfred Gary Myers Jr. said on March 14, 2005 8:43 AM:
Haven't read his work yet, but after seeing a reference to him in SSCLI's BCL, I've put The Art of Computer Programming in my Amazon's wish list.
# Joe Duffy said on March 14, 2005 10:34 AM:
*Next* to the trash?

Ant colonies, interestingly, end up built in such a way so that three locations are as far apart as geometrically possible (forming a triangle): the trash heap, the carcus pile (i.e. graveyard), and the nest. Nobody knows why--it seems that from the whole colony emerges this consistent structure...

Now, who's right? Knuth or the ants...

Guess I'll have to listen in to find out. :)
# Jonathan Allen said on March 14, 2005 12:09 PM:
Because of JavaScript errors, I cannot view the "Designing for a Managed Memory World" presentation. Could have someone at a look at the website.

Jonathan Allen
Windows XP SP-2/IE no add-ins.

P.S. I don't mean to be rude, but the entire MSDN site seems to be riddled with JavaScript problems? Why doesn't anyone take the time to fix them?
# Joe Duffy said on March 14, 2005 3:18 PM:
Jonathan, apologies for this. I followed up w/ the MSDN folks, and aparently there was a site-wide MSDN problem w/ their javascript files... Seems to have been resolved.
# Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium said on March 15, 2005 11:09 AM:
# anon said on March 15, 2005 11:21 AM:
I don't care if it's inefficient, he really needs to remove his bike helmet while inside the library.
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