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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer
Biography / Technology History
The biography of Seymour Cray, the reclusive engineer who built the world's fastest computers for decades through sheer technical obsession and a genius for hardware design. Altman recommends it as a portrait of what extreme individual technical mastery looks like and what it takes to stay at the frontier of compute.
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Sam Altman
Recommended in the AMA as a biography of extreme technical ambition; Altman often cites the importance of compute and those who push its frontier.