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Happy Birthday Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976)
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:48 am
by John Upham
Happy Birthday
Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976)
Recently cited by Dominic Cummings as being very helpful during March and April 2020.
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Re: Happy Birthday Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976)
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:47 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
"Recently cited by Dominic Cummings as being very helpful during March and April 2020."
A great honour - good to know Cummings can be nice to somebody.
I played Demis half a dozen times, and he was always really pleasant, as well as extremely bright.
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:20 pm
by Jon Tait
Demis is a bona fide genius.
Re: Happy Birthday Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976)
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:56 pm
by John Upham
Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:47 pm
A great honour - good to know Cummings can be nice to somebody.
During his 7.5 (?) hour submission he was complimentary about a fair few talented people and companies who had been brought it to assist the government and the civil service. This appears to have been selectively forgotten by most.
Re: Happy Birthday Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976)
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:06 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
"During his 7.5 (?) hour submission he was complimentary about a fair few talented people and companies who had been brought it to assist the government and the civil service. This appears to have been selectively forgotten by most."
That could be construed as an attack on the CS of course. We had outsiders who came in and once they had been there for 5 minutes thought they knew more than the unbiased experts who had been there for 20 years.
Demis of course is very talented.