The criticism on this thread is just incredible!<p>How about the Christmas tree lectures folks? Any anecdotes or your favorites? :)<p>Discussion on previous lecture
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8718875" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8718875</a>
Live broadcast is now on youtube. Forget waiting for Stanford to email you a link. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTGDG4Ge_xU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTGDG4Ge_xU</a>
Ok, 37 comments so far and NOT ONE is about the talk itself? Come on, people!<p>I went to the talk and frankly I didn't follow most of it. I also didn't get any connection to trees. But it was interesting to learn that people have studied sequences (codes) and have proven theorems about properties of such codes. I had no idea that this was an area of study.<p>Tidbits:<p>Knuth's Commafree Eastman prover is written in C (actually CWEB, a literate programming toolset).<p>Knuth has memorized a bunch of digits of pi in binary using a mnemonic for remembering pi in octal.
>A computer that supports streaming media files<p>>PC & Mac Users: Download and install the latest version of Silverlight<p>And the rest of us?
Are these events very popular? I'm thinking of going to the live event but not sure if it will be really packed, if so I would prefer to just watch it online.
Pardon my language, but <i>FUCK</i>. Seeing Dr. Knuth lecture in person has been one of my things-to-do since arriving on campus last year. This lecture is happening 5 minutes away from me but I didn't know about it until now. Until next Christmas I guess.<p>edit: in the meantime, speaking of his past lectures on YouTube -- a few years ago someone asked Dr. Knuth if he reads HackerNews (or Reddit)...he didn't actually answer the question: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDokMxVtB3k&t=18m39s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDokMxVtB3k&t=18m39s</a>
I'm trying to figure out how to actually "wait in the lobby" for the webinar. Is there going to be a link provided on the page right at the minute it starts? If so, that's a bit concerning.<p>edit: Perhaps they will send info in an email. According to a confirmation email I received "Log-in information will be emailed out 24 hours and one hour before the webinar begins."
You can watch the previous ones here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnG4UoaN6hfvW_YRYqINMrv8FOd70Y1A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnG4UoaN6hfvW_YRYqIN...</a>
Technical Requirements<p>Before the live event, ensure that you have the following equipment and software:<p>A computer that supports streaming media files<p>PC & Mac Users: Download and install the latest version of Silverlight<p><i>DSL or a fast Internet connection to view the video session.</i><p>Will my ISDN 64k work?