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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by xxs on Monday April 08, 2024 @12:44AM (#39966280)
top 1% would be such way out of range. top 0.0001% would still not make it justice.
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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by hiAndrewQuinn on Monday April 08, 2024 @01:32AM (#39966488)
1 out of every million... Yeah, that sounds about right to me as an actual lower bound.
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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by alex_smart on Monday April 08, 2024 @03:06AM (#39967006)
Not sure if you’re being facetious? There were not 100 people of the same calibre as JvN in the US or even the world surely.
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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by lordnacho on Monday April 08, 2024 @03:39AM (#39967196)
JvN, the finished product, probably you're right.

But of the people born with his tools? How many were born into a setting that even cared for intellectual things? How many of them would be born into a wealthy family that could afford to hire private tutors for all their kids?

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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by glimshe on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:44AM (#39969124)
Yes - probably a lot of regular commenters on HN are among the top 1% in intelligence.
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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by saagarjha on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @02:17AM (#39976603)
Maybe top 1% of thinking they are ;)
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