Maybe 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
He's the Chuck Norris of StackOverflow, maybe.
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#32Funny, but also a reminder of how rare it is to find people who combine deep technical ability with the calm, high-leverage decision-making that scales teams. Memes aside, those are the folks who quietly shape entire fields.
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#33https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
To me this will remain his best work.
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#34Guy happens to be the lead of Google AI right now.
My outsider understanding: Google AI (a Google team which Jeff Dean ran) was merged with DeepMind to create Google DeepMind (a subsidiary of Alphabet, like Google).
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Jeff Dean is now the Chief Scientist of Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind
https://research.google/people/jeff/
I joined Google in mid-1999, and I'm currently Google's Chief Scientist, focusing on AI advances for Google DeepMind and Google Research. My areas of focus include machine learning and AI and applications of AI to problems that help billions of people in societally beneficial ways. I have a broad variety of interests, including machine learning, large-scale distributed systems, computer systems performance, compression techniques, information retrieval, application of machine learning to search and other related problems, microprocessor architecture, compiler optimizations, and the development of new products that organize information in new and interesting ways.
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#35A few more:
Jeff Dean doesn't use a compiler; he just glares at his source code until it executes.
Jeff Dean once optimized a sleep(10) call to return in 5 seconds.
Jeff Dean’s keyboard doesn’t have a Backspace key; he simply doesn't make mistakes.
/end. There's no need to get up. I will see myself out.
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#36> 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.
Yes, Jeff told me this one personally. Knuth came in right before the talk started and the room was full. I think somebody later gave up a seat for him.
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#38I once mailed a CL to Sanjay. He replied, "This is outside of my expertise. Can you send it to Jeff?"
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#39Jeff 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.
As far as I can tell, no one seems to think much of value was lost.
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#40Jeff 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.
I'm having trouble following what exactly this means.
So Jeff wanted the team to modify an existing publication to fit the PR spin on AI, the ethics team refused, and Jeff dissolved the team?