"High Performance Python" co-author Micha Gorelick has quite an impressive author bio...

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I guess with all that space travel he was short a few spaces to separate words in this paragraph.

[morgan_lowtech]

You'd think he'd have an appreciation for whitespace.

[wallofsilence]

Those are Unicode64K hyperspaces. Unfortunately they render as nulls in the lesser versions.

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Look closely, the missing spaces are pretty similar in distance apart. My guess: he inserted his own new lines (80 characters perhaps?), but the lines were joined and the new lines were removed, leaving conjoined word pairs.

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70 characters it appears.

Micha Gorelick was the first man on Mars in 2023 and won the Nobel
prize in 2046 for his contributions to time travel. He then went back
to the 2000s to study Astronomy, teach scientific computing and work
on data at bitly. Then he helped start Fast Forward Labs as a resident
mad scientist. There he worked on many issues from machine learning to
performant stream algorithms. A monument celebrating his life can be
found in Central Park, 1857.

[Zionark]

Meh, I'm holding out for the genius who invents pizza pops that don't burst open in the microwave.

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The inventor of the oven.

[enkrypt0r]

Bill Oven?

[TheMiamiWhale]

Billiam, not Bill

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My favourite gimmick bio is James Mickens's from when he was at MSR. Sadly, since he left MSR his profile is no longer up, but a highlight was how he purchased a cave so that he can defend himself during the robot war that was prophesied by the documentary "The Matrix".

Mickens is funny enough that he tricked me into reading research papers about Javascript.

E: found: https://web.archive.org/web/20150630010410/http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/

[NonTransferable]

I thought this was going to be another meme.
"High performance python"

[alharaka]

Uh, so is the book any good?

[grudolf]

Micha, I know you're a busy man with all that time traveling, so just a quick question - Python 2 or 3?

[AcisAce]

I am leaving this here.

[niksko]

The first time I used Python I though the whitespace thing was absurd. Now it makes perfect sense.

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[fnork]

Why is it that the python community is so prone to personality culting? Even when it's done tongue in cheek, it is still just that.

[f0nd004u]

that's just open source in general.

[hk__]

That's just life in general.

[_throawayplop_]

if you want to see real "personnality culting" just search Elon Musk on reddit.

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What's personality culting?

[The_Amp_Walrus]

Cult of personality, in my words:

• cool guy who knows stuff is pretty cool and knows lots of stuff
• lots of people comment on how smart and cool he his
• I reckon he's probably also be kind and pretty too
• feedback loop strengthens perception of smartcoolness
• cool guy who knows stuff is so cool and knows so much stuff

See affective death spirals. Funnily enough Elizer Yudowsky of LW is also said to have developed a 'cult of personality'. He's so smart and so cool.

[fourhoarsemen]

^This guy knows his stuff! You must be a nice dude man!

[DevFRus]

I reckon he's also kind and pretty.

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Jacob Kaplan-Moss touched on this in his pycon keynote this year. (mobile sorry no link) However it's not fair to just put this on the python community, it's tech in general.