Isn't this heavily "adapted" from this NYTimes article from last year??
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...
I was wondering why Knuth set aside an entire precious Sunday for the "Denton Daily". Big NYT profile makes more sense.
Googling a sentence from their "David and Victoria Beckham keen to present a unified front!" article reveals the same plagiarism—albeit not from the NYT that time—so we have banned the site.