I’m at the Nobel Ceremony. If Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie hadn’t written “The C Programming Language” so so so well, which I read overnight to get the job that saved me from being homeless at 17, I’m not even sure I’d be alive, let alone here. Here’s to good writing.https://twitter.com/anildash/status/939137973240696832 …
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So the whole Nobel banquet thing is a sit-down dinner—great food and amazing live music and all, but the LIGO people are sitting down with the King Of Sweden, no fair. I want to go fan-girl.
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LIGO laureates are addressing the banquet. I’m as excited as I’d been the day I learned about black holes and gravitational waves. :-)pic.twitter.com/xQJtGM10AH
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Soooo Physiology and Medicine Laureate Rosbash started by talking about circadian rhythms and Drosophila but ended with importance of welcoming refugees and the rising anti-science climate in the United States. Sharp, political speech.pic.twitter.com/iqJuLegi8g
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Oookay, found the physics laureates for LIGO, fan-girled, shook hands, thrilled. /curtains
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Soo fangirling the LIGO team continues! I got to ask Kip Thorne how it felt to have succeeded in something seemingly implausible. He said “I had the great fortune of being attached to a superb team.” Such humility and team work in top scientists is both so real and not uncommon.
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I think I’ll go down in Nobel history as “that LIGO groupie”, which is *totally* fine with me, but just for the record, I swear, I was very polite. :-)
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Leaving Stockholm! I think, maybe, just maybe, I spot another member of the LIGO laureate team on the same plane from the corner of my eye—I won’t bug him, I promise—but this has been so thrilling! I’ve had the biggest fangirl week of my life, I think.
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Also, relevant to AI debates. TIL from
@DrKevinFu that LIGO management injects false signals to keep analysts on toes and to guard against sensor failures. *That's* how you do security architecture against component failure *and* manipulation. Need to adopt for AI/social media.Show this thread -
(He has a forthcoming piece on how physical security threats—like transduction attacks—are often ignored. Computing/security isn't just about algorithms or encryption, it has to include dynamics and "exploits" via people *and* physics. Will circle back once his article is out.)
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I had the privilege of working with the LIGO educational outreach program (using seismometers as a proxy for gravity waves) years ago. Great fun and so happy to hear all their hard work paid off. My uni used K&R to teach C, too! So many feels for this thread!
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