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That’s quite a take to assume willful blindness to widespread suffering. What is pretty clear though: your obsession with constantly minimizing the lived experience of a minority with “no ackshually they deserve it because they really are this way” warrants a look in the mirror.
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That’s quite a take to assume willful blindness to widespread suffering. What is pretty clear though: your obsession with constantly minimizing the lived experience of a minority with “no ackshually they deserve it because they really are this way” warrants a look in the mirror.
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I know him from Harvard and came here to say pretty much the same thing. RIP.
I took his Computability class in the Hebrew University. He got angry that students were often late to class, and said that this never happened in Harvard...
A friend of mine was one of his graduate students and a teaching assistant for the class. He pointed out to me once that Professor Rabin would state many of his points during lecture twice. Once I started listening more carefully, I found this to be true. It was both subtle and pedagogically effective.
English was not his first language, but he enjoyed his struggles with it. I remember him stumbling over the pronunciation of a word during class. Giving up with a smile, he said, "This is a word I know only from books."
"As a young boy, he was very interested in mathematics and his father sent him to the best high school in Haifa, where he studied under mathematician Elisha Netanyahu, who was then a high school teacher." Interesting. Some people are lucky enough to find their vocation quite early in life.
That's Benjamin Netanyahu's brother apparently. Sad that the only thing that shows up nowadays in searches tends to be Wikipedia. I miss the democratic internet with lots of quirky sites you could find with ease.
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I took his Computability class in the Hebrew University. He got angry that students were often late to class, and said that this never happened in Harvard...
Any of his "chalkboard" lectures (preferably in English) in open archives of these universities? YouTube searches only bring up Prof Rabin's lectures aided by slides and presentation (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thK_qJqx5mo at Tel Aviv Uni / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCX0Ut0hcWw at Harvard).
Cryptography and Preventing Collusion in Second Price (Vickery) Auctions - Michael Rabin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmCBVrVQqc
No chalkboard but more lectures
https://youtu.be/nbePExzSTQ0?si=KkTbwfwj5rMtQUhD&t=681 - פלאי תורת ההצפנות ויישומיה לתהליכים פיננסיים (The wonders of cryptography and financial applications)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_LG5Hcc8mM - Lecture 7 - Zero Knowledge Proofs and Applications Michael Rabin
For those interested in searching for more here's a Hebrew search string you can use: "פרופסור מיכאל רבין הרצאה" interesting enough Google and YT search yield results in English and Hebrew but possibly different ones than just searching in English.
EDIT: One more:
Michael Rabin, 1976 ACM Turing Award Recipient https://youtu.be/L3FZzGU3n14
Thank you Michael Rabin for your excellent work. Rest in Peace. Rabin Fingerprinting is one of my favorites of his contributions. It's a "rolling hash" that allows you to quickly compute a 32-bit (or larger) hash at *every* byte offset of a file. It is used most notably to do file block matching/deduplication when those matching blocks can be at any offset. It's tragically underappreciated. I've been meaning to write…
I wrote a Rabin—Karp implementation in ~2006 as part of the spam and threat scanning stack for the MX Logic mail service. It was incredibly performant, letting us test {n} bytes against an essentially unlimited number of string signatures in O(n) time.