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Maybe this is off topic and a matter of taste, but wouldn't you hesitate to have a massive computer cluster named after you? While you're alive? Either out of
by supernova87a 5y ago
Maybe this is off topic and a matter of taste, but wouldn't you hesitate to have a massive computer cluster named after you? While you're alive? Either out of modesty, or in the worst case, if something goes terribly wrong with it?
- paxys 5y agoModesty is a very personal preference. I imagine a scientist with a Nobel Prize and world renown is comfortable with something like this. And not much can go terribly wrong with a computing cluster. It may have bugs I guess? Or the whole building could catch fire? Not really reasons to weigh too heavily.
- rm445 5y agoFor the naming institution, the prospect that the eponymous person would be found to have done something dreadful is probably a bigger worry. (Nothing remotely against Dr Perlmutter whom I know nothing about. It just seems we live in a scandal-filled age).