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bitwize on May 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition

The 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 on May 9, 2015 [–]

I 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.

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