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I think Linus and Junio for git is a no brainer. If they don't get that by 2030 it would be silly. Wolfram also is a no brainer. Deep learning will get at lea
by breck 6y ago
I think Linus and Junio for git is a no brainer. If they don't get that by 2030 it would be silly.
Wolfram also is a no brainer.
Deep learning will get at least one more. Chris Lattner and the llvms perhaps? I don't know what work led to the M1 but it feels ground breaking.
I'd also like to see perhaps aaronsw and alexandra elbakyan win one.
I think my collaborators will win won for 2-D/3-D languages if this prediction comes true: https://longbets.org/793/ https://longbets.org/793/ . Sounds arrogant and probably a mistake in my math but I'm betting on it.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoWhy is wolfram a no-brainer? I get that the guy is intellectually brilliant, but NKS wasn't exactly well received and Mathematica is hardly in the same category as things like Diffie-Hellman, backprop, or optimizing compilers.
- p1esk 6y agoThe ideas explored in Mathematica could well be fundamental to understanding our world. Meaning they could be far more important than "Diffie-Hellman, backprop, or optimizing compilers". Regardless of how much credit Wolfram gets for that.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoCan you explain further? I'm a semi-regular Mathematica user, but it's not at all obvious to me what you're referring to. "Symbolic programming"? The notebook? The massive function library? I genuinely don't get how any of these are supposed to be fundamental to understanding our world.