Obviously excluding like Hitler, that’s a gimme.

Can be a good or a bad person.

My vote goes to Churchill or Reagan. Absolutely ignorant people of history.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Do they? I mean, I'm studying Applied Maths and Physics so there is lots of space fanboys I know but most people hardly even know the specific people involved. They just care about the rockets and the space shit. He isn't like Einstein or Hawking or Feynman who actually have a fanbase.

      Speaking of which, Feynman. He was a creepy sexist prick but all the nerds think he is super cool because nerds think being creepy is being a "cool ladies man". The Feynman worship is extremely annoying and you won't believe how many times I've gotten incredible pushback in various physics fora or even from people irl for just pointing this out.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It is somewhat established to call it a path integral formulation.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Oh, didn't know that. Do you work in that kind of area?

                    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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                      4 years ago

                      Yeah I was gonna say, my impression was that any kind of quantum computing is very far into the future and requires us to know a lot more about maintaining superpositions and whatnot, which is why I was kinda surprised that industry cares about this right now.

                        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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                          4 years ago

                          There are definitely much worse uses of money though. Lots of neat nanoscale engineering experimentation being funded.

                          I'm a bit confused, are you saying nanoscale engineering experimentation is a bad use of money?