{"id":1714,"date":"2008-04-27T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T16:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2008-04-27T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T16:08:09","slug":"interview-with-donald-knuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/interview-with-donald-knuth\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Donald Knuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1193856\">InformIT<\/a> interviews Donald Knuth:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1193856\">\n<p>\nFrom a scheduling standpoint, all I know at present is that I must someday digest a huge amount of material that I&rsquo;ve been collecting and filing for 45 years. I gain important time by working in batch mode: I don&rsquo;t read a paper in depth until I can deal with dozens of others on the same topic during the same week. When I finally am ready to read what has been collected about a topic, I might find out that I can zoom ahead because most of it is eminently forgettable for my purposes. On the other hand, I might discover that it&rsquo;s fundamental and deserves weeks of study; then I&rsquo;d have to edit my website and push that number 2015 closer to infinity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InformIT interviews Donald Knuth: From a scheduling standpoint, all I know at present is that I must someday digest a huge amount of material that I&rsquo;ve been collecting and filing for 45 years. I gain important time by working in batch mode: I don&rsquo;t read a paper in depth until I can deal with dozens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}