2 Minutes with Turing Award Winner Whitfield Diffie
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Published 2022-06-11
1. What was the first piece of code you remember writing?
2. What is your favourite number?
3. Tabs or spaces?
Interview with Whitfield Diffie recorded at the 2021 Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow at St Edmund Hall: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford
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All Comments (14)
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Hear the story of how Whit discovered Public Key Cryptography here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaanzpCkc8c
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Congrats on 100k!
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Well done Tom. I would have ended the interview too after he said spaces.
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the Diffie of Diffie-Hellman! so amazing you got to interview an immortal (his name will always be attached to the discovery of public-key cryptography)
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Hey Tom, I am a 15 yr old who, some time ago, hated mathematics, I‘ve been watching some of your videos and I must say, you’re one of the people who have helped me to see the beauty of mathematics and thereby also see the beauty of our mesmerizing world. I dearly thank you for that. P.S.: Could you do an explanation video on Eulers Identity sometime? Would be amazing. Thanks.
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The main takeover of this interview : spaces are better than tabs emacs is better than vim
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Not that money is any means of success but he is doing well with over $15 million
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Richard Hendricks wants a word
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👍
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tab isn't about compression. that tab key should be mapped to tab by default, but instead IDE's map it to spaces, in which case if you truly use spaces, enjoy pressing space 4x as much as tabs
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they look so cute aww
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He uses Emacs 🖖
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I lost all sanity when he said emacs and spaces!
