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by wyager 814 days ago
I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to describe Sanderson as a contemporary Feynman, at least from the pedagogy side of things.
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Nifty3929 814 days ago
Perhaps on pedagogy, or at least nice, intuitive, layperson (but technically accurate) explanations of things. And plenty of fully-rigorous explanations of some things too.

I'm a big fan of Sanderson.

But I don't think we can compare Sanderson to Feynman on raw intelligence or contributions to the state of the art in math/science.

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ChainOfFools 814 days ago
And Feynman himself was characterized by his advisor in a recommendation letter as "another Dirac, but this time human."[0]

[0] paraphrasing from memory, might have been a different supervisory figure.

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