On 11/04/2013 05:40 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I tried to check that out, and I have never needed more than about >> three hops. > > Sure, but then again you're trying to hit people with *extremely* large > networks, and whose first-order networks are themselves *extremely* > well-connected. Even the exotic ones like Ronald Coase -- he > co-authored a ton of papers and attended a lot of conferences and > advised a lot of Ph.D. candidates and taught a lot of courses. > > If you can map out a line to my great-uncle Ormo Rasmussen in three hops > without using me as a link, I'll be impressed. ;) > I would not even know how to go about it.
In my little list, I did not pick these people and see how to link to them; they were people I new directly (the one-hop ones), Or I knew someone who knew them (my piano teacher: Gorgbachev, my grandfather: Albert Einstein). Getting to Richard Nixon was a bit harder. A friend of mine knew his mother. I am actually surprised and impressed by my list. Not that anyone else should care. And on this list, David Wagner was easy since I worked with his mother at Bell Labs and met him not long after he was born. He surely has no recollection of me. Speaking of Bell Labs, kind of a name-dropping switchboard. My grandfather worked there, so I am a two handshakes away from Clinton Davisson. And I worked there and knew Doug McIlroy, and knew Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie very slightly. Also Bela Julesz. And Vic Vyssotsky was the most compulsive cigarette smokers I ever met, but a uniquely brilliant computer scientist. Jean Felker, who lead the TRADIC project (possibly the first transistorized electronic computer) interviewed me when I first tried, as a high school student, to get a summer job there. We talked about round-off problems when using fixed-length and fixed-point arithmetic. Oh! Well! Memories. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:55:01 up 20:16, 2 users, load average: 4.74, 4.61, 4.54 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
