What is the definition of a true "computer genius"

>>58101571

Good list, add Elon Musk to the "not geniuses" one.

>>58101586
OP here,

Thanks. I agree on Elon Musk being considered "not genius".

Hilter was a genius.

>>58101620
He didn't contribute to CS.

Put Knuth on the geniuses list

>>58101626
He contributed to there being less Jews in CS.

>no dennis ritchie

get out

>>58101571
I beg to differ, why isn't Richard Stallman a genius? He's the inventor of GNU

>>58101662
this

>>58101644
Highly agreed!

>>58101571
>>Not geniuses:
>>...
>>Steve Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6fv9UUlQ8

>>58101571
half of your shit you are using wouldn't exist without Stallman

>>58101707
>>58101662
>>58101680
Ok, can add Stallman to the list.

>>58101707
Stallman invented Windows 10 and Firefox?

John Carmack in genius

Zuckerberg in not genius

>>58101650
This is important.

>People I consider genius are:
>Edsger Dijkstra
>Stephen Cook
>John von Neumann

Literally who?

Andrew Ng

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>>58101740
idiot spotted

>>58101571
>>Alan Turing
Didn't invent shit.

>>58101662
>He's the inventor of GNU
Confirmed non-genius

Terry A Davis

>>58101786
Invented universal coputing brah & ACE

Basically created field of recursion theory.

>>58101799
not trollin'. agreed. crazy but genius

doug mcilroy
ken thompson
dennis ritchie
russ cox
rob pike
fabian giesen
ten thousand quiet people almost no other programmer has heard of

>>58101811
Computers were a thing before Turing
>Basically created field of recursion theory.
So nothing

>>58101786
>formally defined computing and it's limitations
>not a genius
Gas yourself.

@58101753
literal shit for brains spotted

>>58101850
>@
?

>>58101841
>>58101843
recursion theory is a field of pure mathematics and well beyond the scope of your shitty undergraduate cs course.

Your code moneky brain cannot comprehend: https://math.berkeley.edu/~slaman/papers/jump.pdf

gas yourself instead

More geniuses:
Julian Assange
Mark Zuckerberg
Snowden

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>>58101918
nice meme

>>58101571
Dennis Ritchie needs to be one of the geniuses.

>>58101900
Masturbatory garbage.

A jump is fucking simple, this is way over-complicating such a simple concept.

>>58101934
Probably would call this simple too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mathematics

when you would literally understand 0 of it

gas yourself code monkey

>>58101850

>When Twatters tries to chan

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can't believe no one has mentioned linus torvalds yet

Geniuses:
Jack Dorsey
Evan Spiegel
Tim Cook
Ginni Rometty
Satya Nadella
Elon musk

>>58101974

kek

>>58101970
Linus Torvalds was implied with Richard Stallman

>>58101887
>>58101951
That's one of the oldest baits in the book.

>>58101947
Unnecessary useless masturbation garbage.

Just because you can spam a keyboard doesn't make simple concepts suddenly complex.

You are executing code at 0x1000, you encounter a jump instruction to 0x500, you are now executing code starting at 0x500
HUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I can guarentee you that everything in the article linked in >>58101900 is 100% completely useless masturbatory garbage.
Sure it feels good I guess to be able to understand overly complex concepts, but it's pretty pointless when it's utterly fucking useless and contributes nothing to anything.

Mathematicians are just a bunch of fucking masturbating monkeys.

>>58101970
Linus doesn't give a flying fuck. He just wants to drink beer and wreck your shit.

>>58102015
>"the Turing jump or Turing jump operator, named for Alan Turing, is an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X ′ with the property that X ′ is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for X."

>>58101900
You're fucking retarded if you honestly believe that.

The point is that Turing helped prove that an entire field of math had a very specific application in the birth of a new physical science, and that all of the questions that that science could answer fell inside of a specific set. Before he came along and actually made the parallel between the abstract math and computing, people were wasting their time trying to solve shit that would later be proven to be unsolvable.

Clearly defining the limitations of a science with proof is no small task.

>>58102045
Useless garbage

>>58102051
you replied to the wrong person

>>58101620
Fuck off /pol/.

>>58102051
If that's true then how did multiple people build computers before him?

>>58102120
Look up ACE

Also he had top secret clearance and couldn't inform others why/how he new how to build a functioning computer.

>>58101626
How about technology in general which was forced to advance and adapt rapidly to counter his superior war strategies?

>>58102139
ACE is the place with the helpful hardware folks. What does that have to do with computers?

>>58102073
u mad jewfaggot

>>58102207

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Computing_Engine

>>58102066
No I didn't.
>>58102120
Understanding the limitation of what a computer can/can't do doesn't stop you from building a computer you mong. The point is, is that people were spending a bunch of time/energy/effort trying to solve problems that fell outside of the realm of computability/recursion theory.

To put my point into a more digestible/general format, what you're saying is, is that a person has to be aware of the capabilities of some machine, in order to build that machine.

Turing took a field of mathematics, and applied it to something that was happening in a current science, and then formally proved that something that was on the cutting edge of mathematics could be applied to something in a physical science. This is something that most people could never even hope to do in their life.

>>58102245
you replied to the wrong person

i am not the idiot that said computability theory was worthless and defended your exact point

fuck off for mistaking me for the code monkey

>>58102321
Okay well I am drunk so sorry. Good to agree with you anon. I just figured that >>58101900 was also >>58101786.

Recursion theory may well be, beyond the scope of a CS grad. It doesn't mean Turing wasn't a genius for drawing the parallels between the two.

>>58102370
Gas yourself, you worthless sack of shit.

>>58102370
it's ok.

i was merely pointing out that computability theory expands well beyond what they teach code monkeys in their cs courses, and is a full blown branch of mathematics.

the code monkey we are bashing hasn't replied in a while. he stopped once we ganged up on him and wrote it off as masturbation and useless

>>58102393
At least get a minor in maths you worthless shitsack.

>>58101571
Wozniak

>>58101650
good point

>>58101707
Society as we know it would not exist without Bill Gates

Making something popular does not equate to being a genius

Being a fanboy of someone does not make them a genius

>>58102073
>le /pol/ boogeyman
get throat cancer nigger

>>58101650
>less
fewer

>>58101571
>Stallman

Literally won the MacArthur genius grant. Look up his Math 20 work on circuitry.

>Gates

Fastest pancake sorting algorithm for almost 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting

>>58101799
>ctrl + f "terry davis"
mah nigga

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>>58101571
>>Steve Jobs
But he is. If it were not for him, we wouldn't have OOP, Web, UI, fonts etc.

>>58104003
how would you have found that post with that term? liar

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genius or phony /g/?

>>58101706
wtf I love Bill Burr now

>>58101887
it's for when you want to quote a guy without giving him a (you)

keep up with the trends, dude

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>>58104040
> implying everything on the list is relevant

>>58101994

He would be offended by that, I'm pretty sure

me - genius
you - cocksniffing 89IQ goblins

>>58101799
The true pope

>ITT neet cucks who invented nothing discuss which important person is supposed to be regarded as genius
"b-but I wrote a script in python once"

>>58101970
Linus is real smart but I think he barely doesn't make the cut because he was retreading territory that had already been explored by Unix when he was writing the Linux kernel, just making a version of it everyone could use for free.

>>58104082
phony nutjob.

>>58101740
You should really read literature my friend.

Knuth

>>58101994
kek

>>58101571
A true genius in a field is somebody who comes up with a novel concept or perspective; an innovator. The best examples we have are the people who fucking invented the field of computer science. (You listed some, there's also people like Alonzo Church, Claude Shannon, George Boole and other legends)

People who use existing knowledge to build great systems are not great scientists - they're great engineers.

Linus is an example of a great engineer. He didn't come up with jackshit in the way of novel CS ideas, he just took the existing tools and used them to build a free operating system.

>>58101740
I can understand the other two but Cook? I've never picked up a tech related book in my life and I know who he is.

>>58105249
It's funny because I know the names of Turing, Dijkstra, Neumann, Gödel, Church, Shannon, Boole, Chomsky, Knuth etc. but have never heard of Stephen Cook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science
/thread

>>58101571
>john von neumann
this, this hungarian jew is the man

Bjarne Stroustrup
Charles Babbage
Noam Chomsky (genius in another field but did contribute to computer science)
Donald Knuth
Jon von Neumann
Alan Turing

>>58105710
One of these is not like the other

Well played

Steve Wozniak.

Brandan Eich
Also known for his work on social issues

>rms
>duplicated all symbolics features on his own for months (years?)
>(partially) wrote GCC, GNU, Emacs etc
>not a genius

His politics sucks but he's a brilliant programmer, shame he stopped programming

>>58105226
Steve Jobs invented the most important piece of technology in recent times

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>>58105818

>>58105710
> Noam Chomsky
what did he even contribute to computer science?

>>58105827
Steve Jobs was a brilliant marketer, not a brilliant computer scientist. He was a genius at re-branding existing concepts and selling them to hordes of entranced idiots.

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>>58101571
where's my boy ike?!

>>58105860
He made huge contributions to linguistics, in particular the mathematical formulation and analysis of linguistics, which is a part of computer science. He developed the Chomsky hierarchy, the concept of formal generative grammars and production rules. His work led directly to stuff like regular expressions, EBNF syntax trees, and many other concepts central to programming languages (which are fucking languages after all).

>>58105860
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

Stallman's early AI research with Sussman is still relevant decades later. kys

Isaac Asimov

Real smrt:
RMS
Linus Torvalds
Paul Allen
Wozniak
Fuck all:
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates

>>58101707
Stallman invented TC/IP, HTTP, Javascript, Node, Chrome etc etc?

owo

>>58101571
People I consider genius:
>Me

Not Geniouses:
>(You)

>>58101571
>What is the definition of a true "computer genius"
One who ponders the essence of problem solving before attempting to solve his problem.

>>58106666
checking

>>58101571
More geniuses:
Santiago Gonzalez
Uriel Pereira

>>58106074
Link to papers?

>>58101717
Yes

>>58101586
Why would he even be considered a computer genius? He works with cars and rockets

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>>58101571

You forgot to list the genius who made that swimsuit. Hnnnnggg

add federico faggin to geniuses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin

>>58107367
Z-80 is shit

>>58101970
gnu/linus

>>58101571
>>58101571

George "Geohotz Hotz is a genuine genius.

>>58101650
No, he didn't. Also, it's "fewer" not "less".

Consider this: Most Jewish mathematicians and physicists lived in Europe before the rise of Hitler and NSDAP. Because of Hitler, they had to escape to countries like the UK and US, and were recruited by the respective country's militaries to work on projects such as code cracking and transmitting digital data over radio waves and solving differential equations by automated computation. These projects laid the foundation of modern computer science, especially within fields such as digital signal processing, encryption and computational theory.

If it had not been for the war, they would probably been working on different projects.

>>58101729
>>58103636
See above.

>>58101571
>>58101798
Stallman literally received the MacArthur Genius award.

No one before has formulated and put into practice the Copyleft concept before him.

Copyleft was a huge success. Linux would not exist without it.

>>58106658
>owo
Oral without?

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Add the "make C++ impossible for normies" nord to the genius list

>>58108163
>Linux would not exist without it
BSD still exists and it's not copyleft

>>58101571
>>John von Neumann
He wasn't just a computer genius, he was a genius in the truest sense

>>58101571
>Edsger Dijkstra
now you will tell me that Picasso was a great artists, absolutely not overrated

>>58101571
If they're so genius then why aren't they rich lmfao

Lamport
Knuth
Tony Hoare
Nyquist
Vint Cerf
Bob Kahn
Van Jacobson

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>>58108209

>genius
Well. I'm fairly certain that none of them qualify based on their accomplishments.
Now they may very well be geniuses. But their accomplishments say very little about that.

>>58101620
If you had more than one brain cell you'd realise Hitler was the worst thing that could happen to white nationalism.
Also, your containment board is that way >>>/pol/

>>58102189
There's no hiding the fact that WWII saw some pretty rapid advances in a wide range of areas of technology including automated programmable computers, so in that sense, yes.

>>58103196
Genius.
also: aaron swartz.

>>58108209
>bjarne
He's certainly in the not genius list.
OOP was a mistake and he didn't go back on it until 2014's revision.

Its beyond me how someone could think it was a good idea to begin with. Especially when you're in the position of thinking about making a language you'd really put some thought into it.
Remember that the people who took on OOP were all experienced programmers to begin with. Can you imagine how shitty they were at their jobs before that?

>>58108289

Mad props to mah nigga Nyquist yo.

>>58108369
why is OOP a mistake?
Currently learning C++.

>>58108369
>bjarne invented OOP
>C++14 is less OOP
Go kill yourself for the first one and the latter one doesn't even make any sense.

>>58108401
>why is OOP a mistake?
Don't feed the troll. All you need to know is that this is classic /g/ bait that will feed the Haskell trolls into spouting "Pajeet" and "muh side effects" in an infinite recursion loop.

>>58108412
that's our plan. we wear out their stack and get some temporary peace

>>58108412
No I am serious. I like OOP I want to know why it might be considerd a mistake. How can it be. So much is programmed using C++ and other languages like Java, Objective-C, PHP, etc.

>>58108463
>I like OOP I want to know why it might be considerd a mistake
Confirmed for bait.

>>58101571
Your lack of Konrad Zuse saddens me.

I'd tier people into geniuses, clever hacks and plain hacks.

>>58108401
You can find that out yourself. Type 'OOP is' in Google and pick your approach to learning about OOP.
>>58108405
Did I say any of that?
No I didn't you fucking moron.
You'd expect some level of intelligence among programmers but thats clearly an unreasonable expectation.
Bjane adopted OOP. He's to blame for that.
>>58108412
>assuming FP is the anti- to OOP
Wrong. And I'm not a FP proponent. You'd have to be stupid to even assume someone arguing against OOP in C++ would even assume that.

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/g/ cool kids club checklist

[x] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
[x] hate OOP
[x] hate IDEs
[x] use only Haskell
[x] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
[x] wear knee socks
[x] tiling window manager
[x] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
[x] hate popular Linux distributions (because too intelligent for them)

>>58101571
Stallman was Knuth's protege, he could have been a great computer scientist.

>>58108497
Something worth noting is that OOP programmer makes claims for stuff they haven't made themselves. So whenever you see that you can pull out your stamps and place a big ol' "moron" stamp on their forehead and forget anything they say.
It's not worth wasting your time with them.

Also any time they spend being bad programmers is good for you.

>>58108524
[] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
[] hate OOP
[] hate IDEs
[] use only Haskell
[x] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
[] wear knee socks
[] tiling window manager
[] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
[x] hate popular Linux distributions (because too intelligent for them)

r8

>>58108524

/g/ fanboi checklist

>[] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
>[] hate OOP
>[] hate IDEs
>[] use only Haskell
>[] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
>[] wear knee socks
>[] tiling window manager
>[] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
>[x] hate popular Linux distributions (because makefile)

Dave Baggett of Naughty Dog definitely qualifies for this list: https://www.quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-games-into-so-little-memory-twenty-five-years-ago/answer/Dave-Baggett?srid=z9ZA&share=1

>>58101571
man that butthole must smell amazing.

>>58101740
>hes not a formally credentialed computer scientist
Oh im laffin pajeet

>>58108524
[ ] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
>I'm not a shitty hipster pleb, I'm using a full-sized keyboard with thicc white PBT blank caps
[x] hate OOP
[x] hate IDEs
[ ] use only Haskell
>I use Haskell and C
[ ] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
[ ] wear knee socks
[x] tiling window manager
[x] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
[x] hate popular Linux distributions (because too intelligent for them)
>It's not my fault every popular distro is a gigantic pile of shit

>>58108553
[] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
[] hate OOP
[] hate IDEs
[] use only Haskell
[x] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
[] wear knee socks
[] tiling window manager
[] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
[] hate popular Linux distributions (because too intelligent for them)

Hmm...

>>58108524
>/g/ cool kids club checklist
>[] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
>[] hate OOP
Hate is a strong word. I hate most people who use it though.
>[] hate IDEs
>[] use only Haskell
>[] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
>[] wear knee socks
>[] tiling window manager
But given my floating wm usage I probably should get on that.
>[] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
They're not dark. But I do choose my own colors. Anything wrong with that? God damn squares.
>[] hate popular Linux distributions (because too intelligent for them)

>>58108667
>I hate most people who use it though
Success breeds jealousy

>>58108685
Well its mainly from having to interact with them in some way.
I don't hate them from afar.
But when I have to wait multiple seconds for a program to open you know it was their God damned fault.

>>58108709
>i/o is slow because magnetic spin disk is dying
>"FUCKING OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING!!!!!!!!"

>>58101799
This. Guy is incredibly smart

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>>58102024
That's what I like about him lel

>>58108732
>io from disk is slow
IO is fast enough for word to start without pause.
Building strawmen only makes you look like a dumb farmer.

>>58108782
>IO is fast enough for word to start without pause.
Word is written in C++ and follows Microsoft's internal object-oriented design strictly.

>Building strawmen only makes you look like a dumb farmer.
Says the guy who literally just wrote that OOP programmers are the reason his computer is slow.

>>58101571
>Not geniuses:
>Richard Stallman

Just wrong.

Gates is also a pretty good software engineer.

>>58108782
>>58108804
>IO is fast enough for word to start without pause.
Also, you're forgetting that half of Microsoft Office's runtime is already loaded as dynamic libraries used by other Windows programs and services.

This is the reason why it is perceived as fast.

>>58108817
So was Paul Allen

>>58108804
>OOP is the reason
Well I can't see how people would be stupid enough to not manage to write something that simple without having OOP put an end to all intelligent life at the company.
>word is written with OOP
Yeah. I was assuming that. I'm not sure why you're pointing this out.

>>58103708
>Making something popular does not equate to being a genius
Gates didn't make pcs popular. Computers need OSs, he just provided the most used solution *in the pc world*.

>>58108830
>cogs were turning...
Wait holy shit you (>>58108804) think word starts quickly?!
That's some low standards man.

>>58101650
you got me there

>>58108847
>you think word starts quickly?!
It does when you use an SSD, proving my point that what you perceive as sluggishness is due to programs being i/o bound, and not because the programming language used is object-oriented.

The machine code produced by compilers are not "object-oriented". It's just loads and stores and register arithmetics.

>Lovelace doesn't even warrant a mention

Is it just me or is that pretty peculiar?

>>58108878
It's because she's female

>>58101571

I complained about Jobs as much as anyone but you have to agree that Apple has gone downhill since he left.

>>58108900
Jobs was a marketing genius no doubt, but calling him a COMPUTER genius would be just wrong.

>>58108829
I don't know anything about him but I don't doubt.

>>58101918
>Julian Assange
Complete madman who pissed shit loads of governments and """secret""" agencies worldwide and now has a 100% chance of being buttfucked by the police.

>Mark Zuckerberg
Jew who stole pajeets code and made bank from it.

>Edward Snowden
Complete madman who did the same thing as Julian Assange.

>>58101839
>Rob Pike

Gophers pls go

Genius:
Andrew Tanenbaum

Not genius:
Linus Torvalds

Ada Lovelace.
Charles Babbage
Douglas Englebart

>>58101839
These UNIX guys are overrated engineers, hardly geniuses.

>>58108965
Microkek

>>58108872
>iobound
You don't understand what that means when it comes to software development.
It's slow because of their programming practice because they can't make it use the hard drive access effectively.
If you've ever written software with significant transfer from the harddrive you'd know that it's slow by computer measures but from the user experience perspective it should not be an issue.

But I'm not gonna argue with a programmer that doesn't even know this.

Uriel L'Étranger

>>58109000
>loading a process image from disk into memory isn't an i/o bound task

You're a complete tool, you know that?

john carmack and dennis ritchie are fucking legends

Will.i.am

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>>58104082
he really is hardcore tough

>>58104082
sues people for publishing mathematical proofs

>>58101799
Absolute genius.

Absolutely certifiable too, but still a genius

>>58109096
>He's probably the smartest technology poster of all times.
He has the #1 spot on my filter list. Completely fucking worthless piece of shit tripfag who doesn't know a single thing about anything he opens his mouth about

Dunning kruger in full fucking effect. Same for all tripfags

>>58109100
That guy is literally retarded

>>58101662
He developed a principle of applying CS.
However not anything directly related.

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>>58101571
Jobs and Gates were business geniuses, not tech geniuses

>>58104040
>OOP
Smalltalk.
>Web
Tim Berners-Lee
>UI
Xerox Star / '68 ultimate demo
>Fonts
really?
>otherbullshit
fuck off, shill. He was great at three things only - running a company, being a salesperson, and being an asshole.

>>58103735
even if you agree with nazism, there is no way hitler was a genius. he literally ruined germany and cuucked it for the next millenium

>>58109576
I disagree. He was a genius demagogue, he just wasn't a MILITARY genius and didn't realize that he couldn't win a war if he pissed off all the other superpowers at the same time. You can be a genius even if you're not a renaissance man, you know.

>>58109631
He took too many risks

Really the Japanese ruined it for him by getting the Americans involved and border skirmishes with the Russians before operation barbarossa

ITT: Code monkeys BTFO

>>58109757

You're too late, it's already been hijacked by skinheads

>>58104040

I believe there really are people who honestly believe this kind of thing.

Obviously, I can't tell if the poster believes this or not (nor do I care) -- but I do believe that a not-insignificant number of people believe this kind of thing.

>>58109747
I have a thousand hours in WarThunder and there was no way the nazis could have won because their hardware was the wurst.

>>58101571
Henry Spencer

Linus Torvalds, not for the Linux kernel, but for the bazaar developement style

>>58109924
lolllllllllllllllllllllllllll

>>58101571
David Wheeler

>>58109924
Linus gave credit to GNU for that.
"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."

How Dennis Ritchie or Ken Thompson aren't on this list really irks me.

>>58104409
I'll vote for THAT, bwa...

Kek

>>58101650
>>58101620
/pol/ pls go

>>58108524
>[ ] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
>[x] hate OOP
>[x] hate IDEs
>[ ] use only Haskell
>[x] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
>[ ] wear knee socks
>[x] tiling window manager
>[ ] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
>[ ] hate popular Linux distributions (because too intelligent for them)

>>58101662
>He's the inventor of GNU
That's like inventing cancer

>>58111891
>like

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>>58101571
Terry

>>58104082
inbetween

Stallman and Gates graduated in math 55 at Harvard top of their class
Stallman did research at the MIT AI lab after that

Jobs on the other hand, was just a faggot

>>58108289
>Nyquist
What is your academic background to know this list?

>>58101571
>>Alan Turing
agreed, going visiting bletchley park next year can't wait
also if you google bletchley park it has a cool little animation

>>58114045
i like that he is known for coding but he did a lot of work in pure math that is lesser known

>>58114055
dont hate me but I'm only aware of him working with math inside of cryptography, anything I should read up on?

>>58101571
Stallman is a math genius

>Dan Chess, a fellow classmate in the Columbia Science Honors Program, recalls Richard Stallman seeming a bit weird even among the students who shared a similar lust for math and science. "We were all geeks and nerds, but he was unusually poorly adjusted," recalls Chess, now a mathematics professor at Hunter College. "He was also smart as shit. I've known a lot of smart people, but I think he was the smartest person I've ever known."

>It was in Math 55 that Richard Stallman began to cultivate a reputation for brilliance. Breidbart agrees, but Chess, whose competitive streak refused to yield, says the realization that Stallman might be the best mathematician in the class didn't set in until the next year. "It was during a class on Real Analysis, which I took with Richard the next year," says Chess, now a math professor at Hunter College. "I actually remember in a proof about complex valued measures that Richard came up with an idea that was basically a metaphor from the calculus of variations. It was the first time I ever saw somebody solve a problem in a brilliantly original way."

>"That's the thing about mathematics," says Chess. "You don't have to be a first-rank mathematician to recognize first-rate mathematical talent. I could tell I was up there, but I could also tell I wasn't at the first rank. If Richard had chosen to be a mathematician, he would have been a first-rank mathematician."

>>58114076
yeah no worries, check out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=macM_MtS_w4

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Computing_Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenesis

his actual pure math areas outside logic im less certain on, but it exist.

>>58114016
>>58108373
Has Nyquist done anything besides signal/sampling theory?

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>>58101571
Konrad Zuse, inventor of the programmable computer. No one here would be shitposting without him. This is the true example of a "computer genius" you asked for.

>>58101918
Nice meme list loser. All famous for being frauds.

>>58110653
Hes not wrong though

>>58114187
There are interviews with Zuse in the best documentary on the history of computing that I have to shill from time to time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245829/

>>58101799
How could someone be so smart, yet so bat-shit insane

>>58101571
I agree with this, although I would say Stallman is a genius even if he has the wrong political opinions hes a pretty smart fucking dude.

>>58115206
ooh also Dennis Ritchie is a genius Elon Musk is a retard, Zuckerberg and anyone whos made money on proprietary software ever go to the retarded jew pile.

>>58115206
>wrong opinion

You are literally retarded and deserve to be gassed.

>>58115274
>not understanding sarcasm

>>58115283
>literally having down syndrome

>no Tarjan

code monkey plebs itc

>>58115372
this

also add Ken Iverson to the genius list

>>58101740
Just go back to learning HTML, that's as far in CS you'll get.

>>58101994
>I'd like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Richard Stallman is in fact Richard Stallman/Linus Torvalds or, as I've recently taken to calling it, Richard Stallman plus Linus Torvalds

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Ritchie &
Charles Petzold for guiniess

>>58114623
where can i download it

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>>58115846
It was on YouTube but the BBC seems to have blocked it
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4IfhVO_zph1KrA8w3Jy-6wA550nBaRC

Private torrent trackers:
https://passthepopcorn.me/torrents.php?id=127912
https://broadcasthe.net/torrents.php?id=102992&torrentid=157592

Might be on public trackers, haven't checked

>>58115846
If you can't find it, let me know.
I'll upload it to MEGA then.

Love him or hate him, Steve Jobs may not know how to code but he's gotta be hands down the greatest salesman of a generation selling snow to Eskimos.

>>58101571
>computer genius
lol

this is what normies call their friends/relatives who can install windows. It has no meaning besides that.

>>58116035
>not on youtube
>not a member of private trackers
>also not on public trackers
pls upload to mega

>>58101571

Steve Jobs might not be a computer genius, I don't know enough to say

but Bill Gates and RMS were both computer geniuses for sure. RMS is nothing short of a savant. They both took that one math class at Harvard known for being insanely hard.

Notch would still be a computer genius in my book because after all, minecraft is a very original game he made by himself. That makes him a god among programmers. Most programmers spend their carreers doing shit for money and never go off and do something inspired like that.

>>58101650
HANGON A SEC

you keep telling how there was no 6 gorilon gassed jesus, but now youre saying hittler did kill lots of jesus then?

>>58116426
>They both took that one math class at Harvard known for being insanely hard.

Harvard isn't the only university to offer courses like these.

You can do an REU long semester program thats more rigorous at Moscow. (math in Moscow),

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>>58101571
Alonzo Church, pic unrelated

>>58101571
Put Dennis Ritchie and Bjarnel on the genius list right fucking now.

>>58108463
OOP is considered a mistake because OOP isn't really OOP, it's just namespaces for functions.

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>>58117084

>>58101626
>He didn't contribute to CS.
The fuck he didn't. Go watch the movie, "The Imitation Game". Without that nigger Hitler, you would never have heard of Alan Turing.

Alonzo Church ftw

>>58114623

>>58116016
>YouTube but the BBC seems to have blocked it

from that list you have EP _ 2 _ 4 5
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4IfhVO_zph1KrA8w3Jy-6wA550nBaRC

and here EP _ 2 3 4 5
https://www.youtube.com/user/lrrosa

>>58116035
so only the first episode is missing as of now, assuming yours is just the same VHS 4k smooth quality as the youtube links, might as well just upload the 1st if you can do it in time for this thread?

if you cant, please create a /doc/ tech documentary thread, so me and other anons can find it tomorrow or whatever day you can get around to it, thanks a bunch!

>>58117610
Cool links, thanks anon

Genius:

Tom from Myspace. Very $$$

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>>58102073

Literally first time on /g/
Keking my head off that /pol/ is everywhere

>>58109222
I thought he literally created emacs. I don't know who considers that a super important contribution, but that's not insignificant.

>>58118781
Why do you find it funny that reddit is everywhere?
It's ruining the site.

>>58118813
Because it makes retards like you get butthurt.

>>58118861
Have you heard of /new/?

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>>58101650
>He contributed to there being less Jews in CS.
WTF, the IT world is full of kikes.

>>58101662
>I beg to differ, why isn't Richard Stallman a genius? He's the inventor of GNU
Inventor?
He just rewrote existing unix utils mainly.

>>58118935
No. Do I care? No.

>no Mandelbrot in genius tier

Please gas yourself

>>58101799
shut up bird...

>>58119015
I'm going to ask the next faggot in 10 years if they've ever heard of /pol/

Fiora is definitely a god-tier programmer

>>58108482
>>58114187
>Ctrl+f zuse
Thank god there are computer literate people on /g/

>>58119041
>implying this site will still exist in ten years

>>58115548
KEK

>>58119065
>a temporary
and that's why you hate people that like this website

> 269 replies
> Satoshi Nakamoto not mentioned once

>>58101740
The computer you're using right now utilizes von Neumann architecture.

>>58101799
Not a genius, just a crazy lunatic doing pointless things. I hate you fucking memers.

>>58119534
Goodpoint

>>58114016
>What is your academic background to know this list?
I studied Computer Science.

>>58102073
Oh I'm sorry, is /g/ your only safe space away from ""rayycizm""?

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>von neumann
based op

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>>58108154
We get it.

>>58121691
>disagreeing with the "le hitler is cool xDDDD" meme makes you autistic

>>58101650
quite the opposite

>>58121707
Firstly: It's a joke. Welcome to 4chan. Hitler isn't a sensitive topic. Nothing is here.

Secondly: Your reaction to something that's inherently a joke revealed your autism power level which, from what I've observed, is quite high.

>>58121747
>Hitler, antisemitism and racism on 4chan is a joke
I think you're the newfag, anon.

Grace hopper maybe

>>58121758
But you clearly haven't been here enough to not care whether it's irony or not. Get over yourself or go back to some safe space website where you won't sperg out because of words.

>>58121794
>we're only being ironically racist
REEEEEE Milo get the fuck out

>>58121802
That's not what I said, retard. Bad attempt at actually holding a contrary argument.

>>58121794
>But you clearly haven't been here enough to not care whether it's irony or not.
This is /g/ anon, it's the only board besides /b/ where we actually reply to trolls seriously. Because we're bored AF.

>>58121822
I love how you started out posting that other guy was autistic and then sperged out over the replies you got.

We need a:

>Black computer genius
>Tranny Computer Genius
>Asian Computer Genius, oh wait someone already said Andrew Ng
>Indian Computer Genius
>Woman Computer Genius

>>58121835
grace hopper

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>>58121835
Tranny was easy

>>58121823
C'est la vie.

>>58121833
Yeah, justified name calling is really comparable to not understanding irony to the Nth degree and misquoting to justify your retard opinion.

>>58121853
>>58121852

>Black computer genius
>Tranny Computer Genius
Lynn Conway
>Asian Computer Genius
Andrew Ng
>Indian Computer Genius
>Woman Computer Genius
Grace Hopper

keep it coming

>>58117610
>>58117841
The best known rip of The Machine That Changed The World is an H.264 encode from a VHS source. 3.3 GB.

Please share.

http://pastebin.com/raw/PEX8gLzT

>>58121855
Autism - the post

>>58101571
>Richard Stallman
>Bill Gates
I don't think you can pass Math 55 without being a genius. You might not like their politics and/or business decisions OP, but they are pretty fucking smart

>>58121878
thanks anon

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>>58121885
>I-I'm not autistic! You are!

>>58101644
Agreed as fuck.

>>58101644
>>58121907
>>58101702
Donald Knuth uses Ubuntu by the way :^)
This makes him an ultra-noob according to /g/-tiling-window-manager-dark-like-my-soul-colors-hate-desktop-environments-arch-user-anime-wallpaper expert professionals

>>58121905
>sperging out over a comment on a taiwanese tapestry forum about jews and hitler
>not autistic
Pick one

>>58121935
source on this? interested in knuth

>>58121983
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/donaldknut466268.html

>I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

>>58122004

thanks

OP here, not trolling.

I put Bill Gates in the "Genius" list:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/07/ed_tech_promoters_need_to_realize_we_re_not_all_autodidacts.html

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/6/4/college-friends-remember-gates-genius-poker/

He used his intelligence in a different way than I originally considered.

>>58109747
He would have lost the war without the US's direct involvement. It just would have taken longer. Plus, the US was secretly sending weapons and supplies to Britain throughout the war anyway.

>>58122704
Yet he got Mated by Magnus Carlsen in less than 10 moves

>>58123148
Steve Jobs was a business genius. You can't argue with that.

>>58101620
GET OFF MY BOARD YOU FUCKING MIDDLE CLASS WHINY FAGGOT

>>58101662
GET OFF MY BOARD FAGGOT

>>58101571
djikstra was a fucking mongoloid

goto considered harmful, really?
asm has fuckloads of jmp's which are just "goto"

its not gotos fault that djikstra can't learn asm

jesus fuck man

>>58108524
This, essentially.
/g/ is sometimes worse than /v/.

>>58108553
intelligent/10
[] 60% mechanical keyboard with pastel colored caps
[] hate OOP
[] hate IDEs
[] use only Haskell
[x] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
[] wear knee socks
[] tiling window manager
[] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
[] hate popular Linux distributions (because too intelligent for them)

Daily Reminder that if you don't acknowledge the superiority of OOP you are a fucking hipster.