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Yes, it's rare to find someone who possesses deep technological know-how and is also a brilliant teacher and communicator. Andrej Karpathy is another who comes to mind. Fortunately, I've discovered that more people fit this mold recently.

For a second I thought you were talking about Julia the language. :)

Shhh... You'll make me miss undergrad. c:

Very much. I'm usually not a fan of the "omg awesomesauce"-style of overexcited blogposts or tutorials, (I much prefer the drier, high signal-to-noise ratio, concise, beautiful texts of the Landau&Lifschitz style), but her posts all make me feel that giddy rush of excitement you're talking about :)

I think because it feels authentic, rather than forced.

It’s really easy to bleed one into the other.

She was LOVELY in person as well. I got her to sign my copy of How DNS Works.