[ProllyInfamous]

Von Neumann is an interesting historical character that nobody has ever heard of, e.g: for such an accomplished inventor, that so few minutes of video footage exist of him.

>I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us.

I can come pretty close to a humbler example of this, as the more-extroverted "bad twin," of an identical set: my own genetic equal is bored to tears interacting with 90% of daily interactions... we both started with good brains/IQ, then went to the same college; but while twin spent the next decades solving EE problems (and co-founding startups), I "kicked back" and smoked myself sillyretarded, electricianing, relying upon bullshit and sheer luck to get to where I [barely maintain] am.

Watching my twin deal with any normal-intelligence persons is such an unpredictable shitshow, but I pretty much always know he's "dealing with us toddlers" who mostly never grew up. His patience is limited but willing.

Glad he can get by among us mere mortals. I have other similarly-minded brothers, but only this one identical twin.

[dezsiszabi]

I definitely heard of him. The CS focused high school I went to in Hungary was named after him, his portrait on the walls, etc.

I think lots of people have heard of him. I agree, that he is probably not as famous as some of the other scientists of the era though.

[jason_s]

>Von Neumann is an interesting historical character that nobody has ever heard of

huh? He's pretty famous to anyone who has studied either the history of computing or of the development of the atomic bomb.

[satvikpendem]

What? Every CS grad learns of Von Neumman architecture and by extension of the man himself, at least I recall doing so, in much the same way as Turing and Church.

[mettamage]

Fascinating.

I mean that.