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Sigh. I bet if I sat next to SW at a cigar shop, he'd never shut up.
by scrubs 5y ago
Sigh. I bet if I sat next to SW at a cigar shop, he'd never shut up.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoHe might be taken more seriously if he took his work less seriously. It's not obvious that it will be useful, but he's clearly mining a beautiful and fun problem space.
- jl2718 5y agoI’ve met him a few times at small conferences and my ex used to babysit for him. I think he’s quite playful actually, in a very focused intellectual sort of way. He often goes extempore and makes contemporary jokes out of his presentations. This post too is sort of him testing himself on an unrelated topic, and the number of otherwise distinguished academics doing that is nearly zero (e.g. Roughgarden). But of course he has a very strong desire that the universe is actually just a manifestation of simple local rules (that would offer the best memory performance for the parallel processors in the simulation hypothesis, right?), and that all of mathematics can be replaced by the same.
- jl2718 5y agoHe’s quite shy when unprovoked.