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Looks like this project began as someone's undergrad thesis. Impressive, to say the least!

I hope Google/Microsoft Research/etc. are writing this guy letters like right now.

I bet that pg hopes that he will apply to ycombinator.

Because... what? Any skilled engineer is somehow automagically also blessed with entrepreneurial spirit?

Simon Peyton-Jones is a MS Research employee, so probably yes.