nirmal91/turing-award-series
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Deep-dive into every Turing Award winner: who they were, why they mattered, and working implementations of their core ideas.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2026-09-09 · latest 2026-10-02
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…presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." Code, a runnable demo, and the full writeup: https://github.com/nirmal91/turing-award-series/tree/main/07...
comment by nutwani91 · 2026-10-02 · in The Algorithm Still Running Your GPS: Edsger Dijkstra and His Impact on CS -
…After 20+ years of writing code, I finally wrote Lisp for the first time. Code and full writeup: https://github.com/nirmal91/turing-award-series/tree/main/06...
comment by nutwani91 · 2026-09-20 · in A Man Who Named AI: John McCarthy and the End of the Code–Data Divide -
…to nudge the inputs to make your answer exactly right. Code, a runnable demo, and the full writeup: https://github.com/nirmal91/turing-award-series
comment by nutwani91 · 2026-09-09 · in The Math Under Every AI Model: James Wilkinson and Backward Error