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Richard Hamming midcentury US mathematician and programmer who contributed to the Manhattan Project, pioneered CS theory at Bell Labs, and was always in over his head friend and coworker to Information Science founder Claud Shannon, who helped him understand that there's YOSPOS smart and then there is actual freak genius intelligence. from then on he called himself a janitor of science "Hamming remained at Los Alamos until 1946, when he accepted a post at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL). For the trip to New Jersey, he bought Klaus Fuchs's old car. When he later sold it just weeks before Fuchs was unmasked as a spy, the FBI regarded the timing as suspicious enough to interrogate Hamming.[2] Although Hamming described his role at Los Alamos as being that of a "computer janitor",[6] he saw computer simulations of experiments that would have been impossible to perform in a laboratory. "And when I had time to think about it," he later recalled, "I realized that it meant that science was going to be changed" "Shortly before the first field test (you realize that no small scale experiment can be done—either you have a critical mass or you do not), a man asked me to check some arithmetic he had done, and I agreed, thinking to fob it off on some subordinate. When I asked what it was, he said, "It is the probability that the test bomb will ignite the whole atmosphere." I decided I would check it myself! The next day when he came for the answers I remarked to him, "The arithmetic was apparently correct but I do not know about the formulas for the capture cross sections for oxygen and nitrogen—after all, there could be no experiments at the needed energy levels." He replied, like a physicist talking to a mathematician, that he wanted me to check the arithmetic not the physics, and left. I said to myself, "What have you done, Hamming, you are involved in risking all of life that is known in the Universe, and you do not know much of an essential part?" I was pacing up and down the corridor when a friend asked me what was bothering me. I told him. His reply was, "Never mind, Hamming, no one will ever blame you."" "Throughout his time at Bell Labs, Hamming avoided management responsibilities. He was promoted to management positions several times, but always managed to make these only temporary." Analytic Engine fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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his final recorded lecture is one of the best perspectives ever on leaving a legacy with only one lifetime of work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw also: at 18:21 he describes his "keep your office door open" theory for getting to know other scientists Analytic Engine fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Mar 16, 2022 |
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the patron saint of YOSPOS is fat, smells bad, and loves to argue about computers
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Poopernickel posted:the patron saint of YOSPOS is fat, smells bad, and loves to argue about computers rms is a libertarian shithead
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Mar 18, 2022 16:52
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an entity can have multiple patron saints one for being a pedantic argumentative nerd one for being sorry they caused the greatest atrocities mankind has ever seen
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but enough about my posts...............................
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akadajet posted:rms is a libertarian shithead a true yospos mascot
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i remember a while back someone found some dude online who collected old supercomputers and had like several Crays and a few Thinking Machines and so forth and someone bought him an account and after a while jonny ended up asking how he took care of them (like they were mostly decorative, no one is gonna spin up an old Cray to Do Actual Work) and pretty soon they were like "yeah 409 really gets off that grimy dirt" and, well,
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rotor posted:i remember a while back someone found some dude online who collected old supercomputers and had like several Crays and a few Thinking Machines and so forth and someone bought him an account and after a while jonny ended up asking how he took care of them (like they were mostly decorative, no one is gonna spin up an old Cray to Do Actual Work) and pretty soon they were like "yeah 409 really gets off that grimy dirt" and, well, never meet your heroes.
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Poopernickel posted:the patron saint of YOSPOS is fat, smells bad, and loves to argue about computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQxKURvE9iI
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Poopernickel posted:the patron saint of YOSPOS is fat, smells bad, and loves to argue about computers 2 outta 3 for me
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Poopernickel posted:the patron saint of YOSPOS is fat, smells bad, and loves to argue about computers 
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wrt itinerant academic autists, it's the virgin Stallman vs the chad Erdos
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just posted in the HN thread: thowaway673y 3 hours ago | parent | next [–] RMS is no normal human, he can match with 5 or 6 100x programmers from symbolic company which they have admitted. reply
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https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5161
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patron saint of lizards, not coders common mistake of course
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there's actually a patron saint of the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville#Legacy
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Poopernickel posted:there's actually a patron saint of the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville#Legacy quote:(This honour is unofficial: the Holy See considered naming Isidore as patron saint of the Internet but has not done so.[28][29])
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it kind of fits - the patron saint of the Internet should 100% have people arguing about canon
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Poopernickel posted:it kind of fits - the patron saint of the Internet 100% should have people arguing about canon i mean i fail to see how there is any argument about this particular part of canon
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would you say it's...non-canonical?
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Poopernickel posted:would you say it's...non-canonical? you're not arguing about this very well
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*jeremy clarkson voice* Hamming!
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The Management posted:*jeremy clarkson voice* Hamming! he's not even a real hamster! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgABbHPdwH4
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rotor posted:i remember a while back someone found some dude online who collected old supercomputers and had like several Crays and a few Thinking Machines and so forth and someone bought him an account and after a while jonny ended up asking how he took care of them (like they were mostly decorative, no one is gonna spin up an old Cray to Do Actual Work) and pretty soon they were like "yeah 409 really gets off that grimy dirt" and, well, didn't we have someone years ago who got some old mainframe equipment, wanted to fire it up, but was having trouble finding an electrician who'd be willing to run the electrical wiring it'd need?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:didn't we have someone years ago who got some old mainframe equipment, wanted to fire it up, but was having trouble finding an electrician who'd be willing to run the electrical wiring it'd need? might have been the same guy
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Stewart Lee. comedy gold. did a gig in his underwear. comedy gold.
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Poopernickel posted:would you say it's...non-canonical? yeah, oki, it could be hp, brother
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