That's an interesting quote, because Feynman's superpower seemed to be his ability to visualize a difficult problem and make it parsable by mere mortals. I think he only scored ~135 on an IQ test (whatever that's worth).
It wouldn't have been that out of left field, he did work on massively parallel machines at Connection Machine. Though I guess that was more AI than distributed systems, iirc.
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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U719vQz-WFs
Leslie Lamport : "I am not smart. I have the gift of abstraction."
Real mathematics isn't about details. Its about concepts and abstractions and how we compose them (LLMs are good at those aspects).
That's an interesting quote, because Feynman's superpower seemed to be his ability to visualize a difficult problem and make it parsable by mere mortals. I think he only scored ~135 on an IQ test (whatever that's worth).
Pity Feynman didn’t write a Distributed Systems textbook…
It wouldn't have been that out of left field, he did work on massively parallel machines at Connection Machine. Though I guess that was more AI than distributed systems, iirc.