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by prezjordan 657 days ago
A lot to admire in this post about passion and long-term thinking but this is too egregious.

> Back in 1979, for example, I’d invented the idea of transformations for symbolic expressions as a foundation for computational language.

I hope at 65 to have the energy to work this hard, but I also hope at 65 I'm surrounded by people who will kindly correct me when I take credit for ideas that aren't mine, and that I will listen to them.

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> Back in 1979, for example, I’d invented the idea of transformations for symbolic expressions as a foundation for computational language.

Right, so math then. You invented math.

Indeed I agree it is an egregious claim.