Today [2021-10-24], ten years ago [2011-10-24]:
John McCarthy dies.
On 2021-10-24, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Today [2021-10-24], ten years ago [2011-10-24]:Who cares?
John McCarthy dies.
Today [2021-10-24], ten years ago [2011-10-24]:
John McCarthy dies.
On 2021-10-24 at 03:54 +0000, Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
On 2021-10-24, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Today [2021-10-24], ten years ago [2011-10-24]:Who cares?
John McCarthy dies.
People care and will remember McCarthy even ninety years from now.
About you I have my doubts.
So what?
People care and will remember McCarthy even ninety years from now.
About you I have my doubts.
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
Today [2021-10-24], ten years ago [2011-10-24]:
John McCarthy dies.
I care. Taught us so many great ideas, to say very little. Have you
seen his continuous-nowhere-differentiable function? Much simpler than Weirstrass's. I loved it.
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