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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Well, that was a lot of pomp and circumstance. I have to say, the science remains as exciting to me today as my earliest memories of discovering tye endeavor. Goosebumps from the LIGO folks getting the prize on.pic.twitter.com/p1QCe32rq6
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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 can just try and imagine the unmeasurable amount of spin-off knowledge that was made from this amazing work. And everything new this success will result in teaching us about the universe and everything.
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