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I didn't consider that Burry shorting Nvidia has more to do with a) Jensen's sales/revenue targets being premised on permits to sale to China + Chinese willingness to buy permitted nerfed cards at scale b) TPUs being unleashed add production issues and… yeah NVDA overpriced
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Here’s Claude’s response when I took it to task for overlooking Dr. Hipp: You're absolutely right! That's a significant oversight. **Richard Hipp**, creator of SQLite, definitely belongs on this list - arguably in the top 50, not just the top 100. SQLite is probably the most widely deployed database in the world, running on billions of devices including every iPhone, Android phone, web browser, and countless embedded systems. His creation of a serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database that fits in a single file has had massive influence on software development. The fact that SQLite is also public domain and meticulously tested (with one of the highest test-to-code ratios in the industry) makes his contribution even more remarkable. I should have included him instead of some of the entries in my lists. Thank you for the correction - Hipp's work has probably touched more devices than almost any other programmer's contributions.
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Next 50: Here's the next 50 influential computer programmers (51-100): 51. **Ian Goodfellow** - Inventor of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) 52. **Yann LeCun** - Chief AI Scientist at Meta, pioneer in convolutional neural networks 53. **Andrew Ng** - Co-founder of Coursera, former head of Google Brain 54. **Demis Hassabis** - Co-founder of DeepMind 55. **Fei-Fei Li** - AI researcher, creator of ImageNet 56. **Stuart Russell** - AI researcher, co-author of leading AI textbook 57. **Peter Norvig** - Director of Research at Google, co-author of AI textbook 58. **Yoshua Bengio** - Deep learning pioneer 59. **Jürgen Schmidhuber** - Pioneer in LSTM neural networks 60. **Michael Stonebraker** - Database systems pioneer, Turing Award winner 61. **David Patterson** - Computer architecture pioneer, RISC advocate 62. **John Hennessy** - Computer architecture pioneer, former Stanford president 63. **Butler Lampson** - Turing Award winner, contributed to personal computing 64. **Charles Thacker** - Designed Xerox Alto, Turing Award winner 65. **Ivan Sutherland** - Pioneer of computer graphics 66. **Fred Brooks** - Author of "The Mythical Man-Month" 67. **Niklaus Wirth** - Creator of Pascal and Modula 68. **Brian Kernighan** - Co-author of "The C Programming Language" 69. **Douglas Crockford** - JavaScript architect, created JSON 70. **Brendan Gregg** - Systems performance expert 71. **Bryan Cantrill** - Systems programmer, DTrace creator 72. **Solomon Hykes** - Creator of Docker 73. **Mitchell Hashimoto** - Co-founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant 74. **Kelsey Hightower** - Kubernetes advocate and contributor 75. **Eric Brewer** - CAP theorem, professor at UC Berkeley 76. **Jeff Atwood** - Co-founder of Stack Overflow 77. **Joel Spolsky** - Co-founder of Stack Overflow, Trello 78. **Paul Graham** - Co-founder of Y Combinator, created Arc 79. **Robert Martin (Uncle Bob)** - Software craftsmanship advocate 80. **Martin Fowler** - Software design pattern expert 81. **Kent Beck** - Creator of Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Development 82. **Ward Cunningham** - Inventor of the wiki 83. **Grady Booch** - Co-creator of UML 84. **James Rumbaugh** - Co-creator of UML 85. **Ivar Jacobson** - Co-creator of UML 86. **Herb Sutter** - C++ standards committee chair 87. **Scott Meyers** - C++ expert and author 88. **Andrei Alexandrescu** - D language co-designer, C++ expert 89. **Walter Bright** - Creator of D programming language 90. **Roberto Ierusalimschy** - Creator of Lua 91. **Xavier Leroy** - Creator of OCaml 92. **Simon Peyton Jones** - Lead developer of Haskell 93. **Philip Wadler** - Programming language researcher, contributed to Haskell 94. **Joe Armstrong** - Creator of Erlang (passed away in 2019, so may not qualify) 95. **Robert Virding** - Co-creator of Erlang 96. **Mike Williams** - Co-creator of Erlang 97. **Van Jacobson** - Internet protocols expert 98. **Paul Mockapetris** - Inventor of DNS 99. **Phil Katz** - Creator of ZIP file format (passed away in 2000, so doesn't qualify) 100. **Igor Sysoev** - Creator of nginx Let me provide some replacements for those who have passed away: 94. **Fabrice Bellard** - Creator of QEMU, FFmpeg, and numerous other projects 99. **Antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo)** - Creator of Redis 100. **Matz Nygaard** - Systems programmer and educator This second tier includes many specialists in specific domains like databases, AI/ML, systems programming, web infrastructure, and programming language design. While they may not have the same universal name recognition as the first 50, their contributions have been fundamental to modern computing infrastructure and development practices.
Here’s Claude’s response when I took it to task for overlooking Dr. Hipp: You're absolutely right! That's a significant oversight. **Richard Hipp**, creator of SQLite, definitely belongs on this list - arguably in the top 50, not just the top 100. SQLite is probably the most widely deployed database in the world, running on billions of devices including every iPhone, Android phone, web browser, and countless embedded systems. His creation of a serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database that fits in a single file has had massive influence on software development. The fact that SQLite is also public domain and meticulously tested (with one of the highest test-to-code ratios in the industry) makes his contribution even more remarkable. I should have included him instead of some of the entries in my lists. Thank you for the correction - Hipp's work has probably touched more devices than almost any other programmer's contributions.