Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) by amelius on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:29AM (#23810120)

> Most people are not Feynman. Most engineers today think they have the capability of being Feynman one day - of course, statistics dictates that most will not be.

But Feynman, at least in his written works, was more a reverse engineer than an actual engineer.

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Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) by fsloth on Sunday July 12, 2020 @07:23AM (#23810557)

Feynman had a key role in engineering the computations of Manhattan Project. I have no idea what could be more like engineering than this. "With Stanley Frankel and Nicholas Metropolis, he assisted in establishing a system for using IBM punched cards for computation."

But, on the other hand, physics could be described as a way to reverse engineer nature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Manhattan_Proj...

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