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PG's advice reminds me of a story from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. Feynman relates how his first (!) scientific talk (as a graduate student at Princeton
by mhartl 13y ago
PG's advice reminds me of a story from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. Feynman relates how his first (!) scientific talk (as a graduate student at Princeton) was attended by such luminaries as Eugene Wigner, Wolfgang Pauli, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann. We was terrifically nervous, but discovered that as soon as he started giving the talk his nervousness melted away—he was too focused on the physics to worry about who was in the audience.
- mhartl 13y agoI meant "He was", not "We was". Argh. I must have read and missed that ten times, and of course now it's too late to edit it.