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The fact that his work is still referenced, is still part of the game, and wanted by people on t-shirts/mugs/etc is significantly more contribution than the moronic made-up "0.000000000001%" number you claim.
He is a flawed person and he admits it several times in his post. But he also uses his story to highlight some good points about how broken the tech-capitalist system can be for artists, and that is my takeaway from this post. So please have a little empathy, it is not easy to know if you are being treated fairly in this complicated world today.
> I worked in venture capital for two years at a fund specializing in the area my Loyal is in (so I had a preexisting VC network, was seen as a bit of an ‘insider’, and the fund invested in Loyal, which was good signaling).
> What 99% of programmers don't know about memory... number 17 will shock you!
> The title of this paper is an homage to David Goldberg’s classic paper “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic”
What I learned: Not to make a compiler during a hackathon.