Guy happens to be the lead of Google AI right now.
The Jeff Dean Facts
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#22> When Jeff gives a seminar at Stanford, it's so crowded Don Knuth has to sit on the floor. (TRUE) That's actually funny and cool if true. I think what's even more impressive is that this stuff was all pre-AI boom.
It probably is. I think the same thing happened when Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) gave a talk at Google. I was there, it was crowded, and Don Knuth showed up. 90% sure he sat on the floor.
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#23My highlight are During his own Google interview, Jeff Dean was asked the implications if P=NP were true. He said "P = 0 or N = 1." Then, before the interviewer had even finished laughing, Jeff examined Google's public certificate and wrote the private key on the whiteboard. Jeff Dean wrote an O(n^2) algorithm once. It was for the Traveling Salesman Problem I read it more as a parody of The Most Interesting Man in th…
"Chuck Norris facts" was a text-only meme format from the mid '00s. Stuff like "Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis" or "When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push himself up, he pushes the Earth down." The Jeff Dean Facts use the same format. It doesn't have anything to do with Chuck Norris himself.
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#24> When Jeff Dean goes on vacation, production services across Google mysteriously stop working within a few days. This is actually true. ... It's not clear whether this fact is really true, or whether this line is simply part of the joke, so I've omitted the usual (TRUE) identifier here. Interpret this as you see fit :) I think this one's true-ish. Back in the day when Google didn't have good cron services for the co…
I submitted this "fact" and it is indeed a true story, exactly as you said.
The "global protobuf db" had comments all over it saying it's not intended for production-critical tasks, and it had a lot of caveats and gotchas even aside from being built by Jeff's desktop, but it was so convenient that people naturally ended up using it anyway.
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#25Maybe I just run in different circles but I was always under the impression that the so called Chuck Norris of programming was Jon Skeet, another rather "famous" google employee
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#26Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
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#27Jeff Dean liquidated Google's entire AI ethics team because they wouldn't revise an academic publication to align with the corporate PR spin on AI.
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#28loved this so much i made a jeff dean persona for my AI: https://www.zo.computer/pub/persona/prs_WtLmiGHQmHqaMKIy
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#29> When Jeff gives a seminar at Stanford, it's so crowded Don Knuth has to sit on the floor. (TRUE) That's actually funny and cool if true. I think what's even more impressive is that this stuff was all pre-AI boom.
It probably is. I think the same thing happened when Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) gave a talk at Google. I was there, it was crowded, and Don Knuth showed up. 90% sure he sat on the floor.
I would definitely give up my seat to Don Knuth.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It probably is. I think the same thing happened when Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) gave a talk at Google. I was there, it was crowded, and Don Knuth showed up. 90% sure he sat on the floor.
I would definitely give up my seat to Don Knuth.
In theory I would too, but I was also on the floor, and believe it or not I didn't notice Don Knuth was there until after the talk had started.