[HN Gopher] Freeman Dyson and me
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       Freeman Dyson and me
        
       Author : anarbadalov
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-10-20 14:52 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ColinWright wrote:
       | I remember a brief exchange of emails I had with Dyson. Nothing
       | of import, talking about some old math that he had once done.
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       | He seemed very kind.
        
         | AlotOfReading wrote:
         | I was lucky enough to have a conversation with him after a
         | lecture once. He was very nice to me, but also a contrarian.
         | Even still, I've met few people whose minds so clearly
         | demonstrated their enormous breadth of thought, let alone in a
         | short conversation late at night.
        
       | jjgreen wrote:
       | _He had been stopped by the police for walking. They had some
       | reason: he had broken his glasses and was wearing scuba diving
       | goggles to assist his vision. When asked for identification, he
       | produced a card with his picture and fingerprints on it from the
       | Department of Defense. It said that the bearer of this card was
       | entitled to receive top-secret information._
        
         | [deleted]
        
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