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Hard to believe this hasn't been posted before, but this is one of my favourite Feynman stories (collection of, really) ever. Absolutely magical.

(Worth re-visiting the other side of Thinking Machines too, I suppose: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Thinking-Machines.aspx)




Do note the Ken Jones comment on that article basically repudiating the crude editorializing of the main article.


I hadn't read that, thanks. I'm glad it wasn't quite how it was made out, but it also makes it a bit sadder that they died.


I couldn't find the comments section. Link?


just scroll down from the dailywtf article

(http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Thinking-Machines.aspx?pg=3#... for Ken Jones).




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