Thanks. Love it. A Google search, whilst listening, led me to one of the comments (I can't tell you which one) in response to this 2015 post by Andrew Gelman:
His two books "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman" and "What do you care what other people think" are both highly entertaining and well worth reading. As well as the "science stuff" he tells lots of amusing anecdotes about living in the great depression and war years and working on the manhattan project, and of course working on the Challenger space shuttle launch disaster that he was on the inquiry panel for. If you haven't read them, don't even think about it, just get them!
Here is his famous talk "Los alamos from below", which also forms a chapter in one of the books.
I saw the "Oppenheimer" movie last year, one detail I noticed was that at the trinity test, they showed someone playing bongos somewhere around the test site just after the bomb had gone off; I'm sure that was a reference to Feynman, although they didn't mention him by name.
I have "Feynman Lectures on Computation". Not the same level as his Physics lectures but still quite interesting. Time to read it carefully as I had only done a quick read back in '97.
The example of the mental accountant is reflected in the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, however as a mere anecdote with hardly any dissertation, I seem to remember. I definitely liked the conclusions of the video.
Wow, I may remember wrong, in the biography he was considered a lazy person, no imbalance in his abilities. I liked the reading.
Another emotional read. Thanks.
A deep mind.
Following on from "los alamos from below", here is a historic debate that took place in 1974 between Gordon Edwards and Edward Teller (who Feynman worked with at Los Alamos) on nuclear power. This was before 3-mile island, chernobyl, or fukushima. Truly rivetting stuff, from two great speakers.
I decided a few years ago not to think anymore as stuff stopped making sense and became mostly gimmicks about ten years ago. "Initiative" used to be a valuable personality trait but not anymore.
Since posting that video of Ed Teller and Gordon Edwards I've carried on looking further, as you do... I found these two fascinating videos by Prof Martyn Poliakoff of a recent visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory on plutonium production and rare heavy elements. This is kind of obliquely linked to Feynman since I believe Oak Ridge played a part in the manhattan project, so I'm pretty sure Feynman would have gone there sometimes in his working life, I'm sure he was familiar with Oak Ridge. But extremely interesting nonetheless.
I'm trying to think of a FreeBSD angle to this. I wonder what computer systems they use at Oak Ridge..! It would be very interesting to hear of any scientific/insturmentation/control type uses of FreeBSD
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