The Jeff Dean Facts
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The Jeff Dean Facts
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#2> 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.
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#3I didn’t think I’d laugh, but a few of these cheered me up. Laughter is such a good medicine.
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#4I didn’t think I’d laugh, but a few of these cheered me up. Laughter is such a good medicine.
Agreed! I felt the same way but sitting here with my morning coffee chuckling away. A good start to the day.
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#5In an alternate universe, pi is rational, and Jeff Dean is not.
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#6What’s Mustang? Web search?
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#7Love it!
> Jeff Dean compiles and runs his code before submitting, but only to check for compiler and CPU bugs.
Sadly, I have encountered this, in many "Non-Jeff-Dean" developers.
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#8It's nice that a company has senior engineers that are known by name and looked up to. It shows that engineers are valued, and a meritocracy exists.
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#9My 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
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#10Someone should IARC the internal one.