I've always been amazed how unassuming most programmers are. I always loved sitting down for a guest lecture and listen to them say "Yeah, this one time I was writing guidance software for the Mars probe and..." in a nonchalant manner.
"The other night I was developing yet another neural network for Toyota..."
"We were working in Big-Endian and not Little-Endian! We have no idea where that missile ended up..."
"Check it out, here's how you write a "Hello World" program for a theoretical quantum computer..."
"So I was waiting for the Cray to finish decrypting the terrorist's cipher and..."
I've got some great stories. Like the time I interviewed with the NSA. Or my Comp. Theory professor who died, happily waiting to meet God so he could ask Him if np-space is within p-space.
Some people surf the web. Some people create the web.
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Al Gore has a blog???
That's what I was wondering!
I've always been amazed how unassuming most programmers are. I always loved sitting down for a guest lecture and listen to them say "Yeah, this one time I was writing guidance software for the Mars probe and..." in a nonchalant manner.
"The other night I was developing yet another neural network for Toyota..."
"We were working in Big-Endian and not Little-Endian! We have no idea where that missile ended up..."
"Check it out, here's how you write a "Hello World" program for a theoretical quantum computer..."
"So I was waiting for the Cray to finish decrypting the terrorist's cipher and..."
I've got some great stories. Like the time I interviewed with the NSA. Or my Comp. Theory professor who died, happily waiting to meet God so he could ask Him if np-space is within p-space.
Some people surf the web. Some people create the web.
No no, the "web" not the "interweb." Sheesh.
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