Hacker News with Generative AI: Richard Feynman

Feynman's Rigor (2009) (jsomers.net)
All of the things I admire about Richard Feynman -- his intellect, and verve, and eloquence -- seem like special cases of a more general feature of his mind, namely, its almost fanatical devotion to rigor.
Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988) (archives.caltech.edu)
Richard Feynman’s blackboard at time of his death
Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) (longnow.org)
One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, "That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard."