Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
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When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
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Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.
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The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.
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It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.
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