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http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/

Great story. Is there anybody like him around today?

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Un-fuckify your link.

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Speaking of jargon, this is the guy that would most agree with Alan Alda on that point.  He hated needless jargon.

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exactly:
"Don't say 'reflected acoustic wave.' Say 'echo'."
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I heard that a duck's quake doesn't have a reflect action of its acoustical wave.

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I heard that a duck's quake doesn't have a reflect action of its acoustical wave.

Must be a big fucking duck.

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Ha, I said quake.

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