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How did Richard Feynman end up playing the bongo drums? How did a new take on Amdahl’s Law help propel massively parallel computing and become Gustafson’s Law? And what’s wrong with the IEEE 754 ...
Are you familiar with Richard Feynman, Safecracker, bongo-player, and, oh yes, physicist? While his eccentric personal life (he used a topless bar as an office while at Caltech and included among ...
Richard Feynman was a multifaceted man: a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a wonderful, caring teacher, a bongo player, an unabashed smartass... Above all, Feynman was blunt and brutally honest. In ...
And now I must bring up the bongos in the film. You might miss this, but the person playing them at the Los Alamos Laboratory is, of course, Richard Feynman (played by Jack Quaid, the son of Meg ...
The era of quantum computing may feel like it’s just getting started—but a 40-year-old conference helped set it in motion.
The late Dr. Richard Feynman, celebrated theoretical physicist and atom bomb pioneer, gets his turn at pop stardom in Peter Parnell's QED, a two-act, nearly one-person play starring Alan Alda that ...