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whaaat the guy who made fairly odd parents is a born again Christian, and young-earth creationist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Har
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hmmm the guy who created the grim adventures of billy and mandy must be a private man, not much info available about him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_A
googling doesn't turn up much either
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ah, a bill watterson type. impressive that there isn’t even a date of birth lol
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ok now i got curious about bill watterson, check this: when he was in 4th grade he wrote a letter to charles schulz and charles schulz wrote back! possibly of interest to
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watt
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whoaaaa
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many such cases
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look at this adorable 1985 picture of Paul Erdõs (72yo) and Terence Tao (10yo) doing mathematics together
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this one almost certainly has a lot to do with the fact that tao was in some sort of somewhat-atypical gifted program (the johns hopkins one?) from a very young age and so "knew someone who knew someone"
not that this picture isn't adorable, but it's a different thing imo
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Jim Carrey described a version of this in his chat with Seinfeld - about how when he was ten years old, he wrote a letter to some talkshow host and got a response. Probably from her assistants. But he didn’t care: “I got a letter from Hollywood!!!”
He was 10
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now we get to my favorite part of Ramanujan's story, and if I'm not careful I'm going to start crying
Ramanujan's new peers encouraged him to write to mathematicians in Britain
a bunch of them dismissed and disregarded him
Except for one man: Godfrey Harold Hardy
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i wrote some (technical) blog posts about some ramanujan stuff after watching the movie! very fun. what a wild story
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