Jeff Dean Facts: 1% of His Brain Doubles Google's Compute Power
prajdabre · x · 2026-08-08
A collection of humorous facts about legendary Google engineer Jeff Dean: Google Search was his Noogler project, he invented MapReduce to sort fan mail, his resume lists things he hasn't done, his PIN is the last 4 digits of pi, he can instantiate abstract classes, losslessly compress random data, and mine Bitcoin in his head. Plus: when Google has a compute crunch, Jeff's brain is used as backup, and just 1% of his brainpower doubles Google's compute.
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