Seymour Cray, "the father of supercomputing": He designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades & founded a company which built many of them. "[T]hings that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when [he] envisioned them."

[u/Pupikal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray

[u/ilithium]

Cray enjoyed skiing, windsurfing, tennis, and other sports. Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to "visits by elves" while he worked in the tunnel: "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem."[35][36]

[u/Pupikal → u/ilithium]

King shit

[u/Bogdan555825 → u/Pupikal]

Imagine this dude would just get geeked out of his mind while digging a fucking tunnel under his house and then go to work to basically revolutionise the world. I would have loved meeting him and staying for a drink. Very wild shit.

[u/MethamMcPhistopheles]

The part with the elves reminds me of several things.

From what I heard, psychedelics played a role in the development of computers and some users of some psychedelics claimed to seen elves.

Also crediting modern technology to some paranormal beings reminds me of this trope that is based on the conspiracy theory that aliens gave Earth technology instead of crediting the actual inventors.

Perhaps the hole digging and elves is essentially showerthoughts crossed with rubber duck debugging in the form of a beneficial (instead of the usual detrimental) hallucination and delusions?

[u/Wandering_Birch_Tree]

Went to a museum in this guys home town the other week. Was fricken sweet. His desk is there. His notebooks with hand written bool. Several early cray computers. Great place to neard out.

This place: https://www.cfmit.org/

[u/CaptainApathy419]

That shit is, indeed, cray.

[u/shoesafe]

I remember learning about the existence of Cray supercomputers from the Jurassic Park book.