Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth – Adventures with Knight's Tours [video]

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83 points by vismit200045 days ago

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svat39 days ago
Every year Knuth gives a Christmas lecture in early December, and every year (at least the last few years) David Cassel writes a blog post about it; here is this year's: <a href="https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2025-christmas-lecture-the-knights-tours/" rel="nofollow">https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2025-christmas-lecture-...</a>
- xeonmc39 days ago
  One could say these are the compsci counterpart of the Queen's Christmas Speeches.
vismit200045 days ago
Lectures archive: <a href="https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures" rel="nofollow">https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures</a>
- leoc39 days ago
  The Stanford linkrot bandits have struck again I’m afraid.
  - svat38 days ago
    For what it's worth (and though I do have some complaints about stanfordonline), the URL <a href="https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures" rel="nofollow">https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures</a> works fine for me.
  - JKCalhoun39 days ago
    The YouTube channel seems to have them: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3</a>
    - leoc38 days ago
      Thanks for that. They seem to have been embarrassed into putting the stanford.edu page back up for another few months. I think my <i>first</i> encounter with Stanford's website archival policies was when I found that they'd shot an old, once-much-hyped interview with Alvy Ray Smith into the void: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28064844">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28064844</a> . Anything on the Stanford website which purports to be education or history is a marketing op wearing a smiling mask. That in itself would be largely fine, but when the marketing objectives have been met they'll delete everything with what seems to be a contemptuous glee, refusing to even use the Wayback Machine. Doesn't say much for that institution.
hcfman39 days ago
As I had never seem an image of Don Knuth before, my head always pulls up an image of Don Knotts whenever I see his name :)<p>I guess that will change now.
- leoc38 days ago
  For good measure you might as well see what the young Knuth looked like, too: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhh8Ao4yweQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhh8Ao4yweQ</a> .
  - hcfman38 days ago
    Good move. They look quite different.