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Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition
- boomzilla 11y agoDoes anyone notice Don's piano belt :)
- xaqfox 11y agoI would wager a bet that it is a pipe organ belt.
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- yxvgbnhn32 11y agoMusic starts at 1h5m42s: https://youtu.be/e_1a6bHGQGo?t=1h5m42s https://youtu.be/e_1a6bHGQGo?t=1h5m42s
- reedlaw 11y agoCan't see who's playing. Is it a recording or some sort of MIDI performance?
- likeachamp17 11y agoGotta love this Christian.
- ten7 11y agoI don't understand this.
- jeffreyrogers 11y agoDon Knuth is a Christian, as he sometimes mentions in talks or things he's written. He also wrote this book which discusses each 3:16 verse in the bible http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/0895792524 http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089579...
- ten7 11y agoThank you for answering my question.
- Dewie3 11y agoA white American being Christian is so common that I wonder why the original poster felt that this was worth emphasizing.
- tokenrove 11y agoAs Knuth himself acknowledged in "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About", it's rare among CS researchers.
- nocman 11y agoDon is such an interesting and humble person -- and oh so very sharp. I ran into this short video after watching the music one, which shows what a very hard worker he was and still is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9514350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9514350
- jonhohle 11y agoThrough some odd twist of, who knows what, I attended the same high school as Donald Knuth. When I learned this, I asked my grandmother if she knew him - she (and my late grandfather) were involved with school since was formed. Not only did she know exactly who he was, but had read one of his books! (Not a CS book, of course; 3:16.) I'm glad that I get to tell people that even my granny has read Knuth.
- jvandonsel 11y agoThe word "eccentric" springs to mind. (I mean that in the nicest possible way)
- jschwartzi 11y agoHe reminds me of a Physics professor I had in college. She was taught by Catholic nuns, and she had a lot of the same mannerisms.
- brudgers 11y agoA comprehensive autobiographical video interview with Knuth from a few years ago: http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/1 http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/1
- thealphanerd 11y agoThis was held at the ccrma stage! So many great talks and concerts have been held there. I have used that room to stream phish shows and watch cabin in the woods in 5.1 :D If you are in the bay area you should definitely go check out one of the events, they are all free and open to the public. --> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/
- laichzeit0 11y agoNot meant to be insulting or disparaging but I'm curious: Does Knuth have some form of highly functional autism or related? His body language is very weird to me. Staring at the floor a lot, seems to be lost in thought, etc.?
- anewhnaccount 11y agoBecause he's not some CEO bounding on to the stage and projecting him self with his chest puffed out?
- olau 11y agoIf you find yourself starting a sentence with an excuse, it's a good sign you are on the wrong side of polite behaviour. He's 77 years old.
- laichzeit0 11y agoI didn't start with an excuse, I qualified my question in such a way that I had hoped these type of responses wouldn't follow.
- bitwize 11y agoThe man built a career out of thinking and you bring up the oddity of him getting "lost in thought"? He might have some sort of cognitive abnormality, but at this point who cares what it is? He's Donald freaking Knuth.
- laichzeit0 11y agoI know. I get that. I love the man and his work. He's one of the hardest working intellectuals I've seen and his contributions to computer science are of the highest order.