[Npovview]

Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U719vQz-WFs

Leslie Lamport : "I am not smart. I have the gift of abstraction."

Real mathematics isn't about details. Its about concepts and abstractions and how we compose them (LLMs are good at those aspects).

[helterskelter]

That's an interesting quote, because Feynman's superpower seemed to be his ability to visualize a difficult problem and make it parsable by mere mortals. I think he only scored ~135 on an IQ test (whatever that's worth).

[BobbyTables2]

Pity Feynman didn’t write a Distributed Systems textbook…

[Chu4eeno]

It wouldn't have been that out of left field, he did work on massively parallel machines at Connection Machine. Though I guess that was more AI than distributed systems, iirc.