Maybe Claude Shannon's circle? See if any of these names feel closehttp://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-information-got-re_invented …
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2 other people suggested Shannon so I’m thinking it might be
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was it von neumann? was this in turing's cathedral?
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I dont think so, i seem to recall reading this before reading that book
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John McCarthy description in Neurotribes sounds closepic.twitter.com/aqWu5Hdcma
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Ah this might be it though I haven't read neurotribes
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The behavior has been more common than expected through history. In Spain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Le%C3%B3n …, famous theologian and poet, restarted his classes at university after 4 years of imprisonment with “As we were saying yesterday”.
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Then 400 years later great philosopher and essayist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno … would paraphrase him in the same university on his return after the dictatorship.
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Most likely not McCarthy as he was quite the scatterbrain. Did some research on his last prediction and McCarthy always went intensely broad and got specific only through lots of hard effort.
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I know nothing just curious as to the answer.
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