Veach is in no way a "typical" person. IIRC, he moved on from inventing a brand new rendering methodology inspired from oldie research in nuclear physics [0] t

Veach is in no way a "typical" person. IIRC, he moved on from inventing a brand new rendering methodology inspired from oldie research in nuclear physics [0] to designing the S2 system at Google [1] to building one of the largest money-making machines in the ads world at Google [2][3]. Not exactly your average engineer. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Veach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Veach [2] https://uwaterloo.ca/math/people-profiles/eric-veach https://uwaterloo.ca/math/people-profiles/eric-veach [3] https://www.businessinsider.com/unsung-google-heros-2011-5?r=US&IR=T#eric-veach-was-key-in-building-adwords-for-google-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/unsung-google-heros-2011-5?r...