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One of the researchers, Tuomas Sundholm, has a real badass CV. Former pilot in the Finnish airforce. Finnish windsurfer champion. Snowboarder. Professor at Carn

One of the researchers, Tuomas Sundholm, has a real badass CV. Former pilot in the Finnish airforce. Finnish windsurfer champion. Snowboarder. Professor at Carnegie Mellon. Speaks four european languages, including swedish. And now at the age of 51, he has created the best AI powered poker bot. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/cv.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/cv.pdf

sakarisson 7y ago
> Speaks four european languages, including swedish. Judging by his name, I'd assume Swedish is his first language, so that particular aspect isn't that surprising to me
- krageon 7y ago
  Just from the fact that he exists in Finland and is older than 20 it's basically a given that he speaks Swedish because they learn it in school.
  - estomagordo 7y ago
    That's stretching it a bit. Many Fins only speak very basic Swedish.
  - Dragory 7y ago
    Learning it in school and actually speaking it are very different things though. Source: learned Swedish in school in Finland, rarely used it since, have practically forgotten all about it now.
xxs 7y ago
Finland has two official languages - Swedish and Finnish, his name suggests he is Swedish to begin with. It's not uncommon to speak four languages (often C2 in couple of them) in the North Europe, esp. the Baltic region. Like mentioned by sibling (sakarisson), that particular part is not impressive, the rest - sure
jacquesm 7y ago
Not to belittle the man's other achievements but speaking four languages is pretty normal in Europe, except when you're from the UK.
- diggan 7y ago
  > speaking four languages is pretty normal in Europe Clearly we have different experiences (swedish person living in spain currently) but I haven't met that many people who speak four languages and are from a european country (but have yet to been in eastern europe). That finns speak swedish is a special case though, as AFAIK, they learn swedish in school and being finn-swedish is a thing too.
  - Beltiras 7y ago
    In Iceland it's pretty normal. We know Icelandic (ofc.) and learn English, one Scandinavian language (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish), then at 15 one of German, French, Italian or Spanish. We are on an island in the middle of the Atlantic. I'd expect more linguistic pluralities on the mainland.
    - Geimfari 7y ago
      I feel that's a bit of an overstatement, having studied them a bit is one thing, but most people here cannot comfortably communicate at all in Danish or a 4th language, and cannot read a book in these languages.
  - bjoli 7y ago
    I am a classical musician, and in my profession it is quite common. I speak a lowly 3 languages, but many colleagues speak 4+. It is a very international market, and if you leave your home country to study, it is not uncommon to work in yet another country before returning home. Our solo flute speaks a whopping 6 languages well, and I suspect our harp player knows even more.
    - jvanderbot 7y ago
sails 7y ago
CV is also 100+ pages, not bad!
stevespang 7y ago
392 published papers
sytelus 7y ago
You gotta love resumes that says “founding of companies listed later” and have a dedicated chapter on “EVIDENCE OF EXTERNAL REPUTATION”.

sakarisson 7y ago

> Speaks four european languages, including swedish. Judging by his name, I'd assume Swedish is his first language, so that particular aspect isn't that surprising to me

krageon 7y ago
Just from the fact that he exists in Finland and is older than 20 it's basically a given that he speaks Swedish because they learn it in school.
- estomagordo 7y ago
  That's stretching it a bit. Many Fins only speak very basic Swedish.
- Dragory 7y ago
  Learning it in school and actually speaking it are very different things though. Source: learned Swedish in school in Finland, rarely used it since, have practically forgotten all about it now.

xxs 7y ago

Finland has two official languages - Swedish and Finnish, his name suggests he is Swedish to begin with. It's not uncommon to speak four languages (often C2 in couple of them) in the North Europe, esp. the Baltic region. Like mentioned by sibling (sakarisson), that particular part is not impressive, the rest - sure

jacquesm 7y ago

Not to belittle the man's other achievements but speaking four languages is pretty normal in Europe, except when you're from the UK.

diggan 7y ago
> speaking four languages is pretty normal in Europe Clearly we have different experiences (swedish person living in spain currently) but I haven't met that many people who speak four languages and are from a european country (but have yet to been in eastern europe). That finns speak swedish is a special case though, as AFAIK, they learn swedish in school and being finn-swedish is a thing too.
- Beltiras 7y ago
  In Iceland it's pretty normal. We know Icelandic (ofc.) and learn English, one Scandinavian language (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish), then at 15 one of German, French, Italian or Spanish. We are on an island in the middle of the Atlantic. I'd expect more linguistic pluralities on the mainland.
  - Geimfari 7y ago
    I feel that's a bit of an overstatement, having studied them a bit is one thing, but most people here cannot comfortably communicate at all in Danish or a 4th language, and cannot read a book in these languages.
- bjoli 7y ago
  I am a classical musician, and in my profession it is quite common. I speak a lowly 3 languages, but many colleagues speak 4+. It is a very international market, and if you leave your home country to study, it is not uncommon to work in yet another country before returning home. Our solo flute speaks a whopping 6 languages well, and I suspect our harp player knows even more.
  - jvanderbot 7y ago

sails 7y ago

CV is also 100+ pages, not bad!

stevespang 7y ago

392 published papers

sytelus 7y ago

You gotta love resumes that says “founding of companies listed later” and have a dedicated chapter on “EVIDENCE OF EXTERNAL REPUTATION”.