A Very Bad Estimator – with Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth is unquestionably a legend of computer science and mathematics – but he is bad at estimation and grew up with a “rhinoceros attitude”.

Don Knuth’s homepage – https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/

The Art of Computer Programming (books) – https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

On Amazon – https://amzn.to/4aUkkeT

3:16 (book) – https://amzn.to/4aRs9lH

Knuth’s questions for Chat GPT – https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

Knuth videos on Numberphile – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWLfLjzHzmFO6T8jCZdipvQc

Brady’s video on John 3:16 from his Bibledex series – https://youtu.be/ZJjFebPW5b8

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