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		How to do great research (paulgraham.com)
		6 points by chris11 on March 20, 2009 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

chris11 on March 20, 2009 [–]

Richard Hamming was quite a brilliant guy. He designed the earliest effective error correcting code and ended up getting awarded a Turing for his work.

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