Comment by NKosmatos
12 days ago
I was todays years old, when I found out that Lisa Su (CEO of AMD) and Jensen Huang (co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA) are relatives! If you can't do a merge, it's good to have family onboard ;-)
12 days ago
I was todays years old, when I found out that Lisa Su (CEO of AMD) and Jensen Huang (co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA) are relatives! If you can't do a merge, it's good to have family onboard ;-)
They didn't know about their relation until much later, but if they had Jensen would have been the "cousin you don't want to be like" - he went to Oregon State and worked at a Denny's while Lisa Su went to Bronx Science and on to MIT.
> he went to Oregon State and worked at a Denny's while Lisa Su went to Bronx Science and on to MIT.
Seems like a bad vibe to imply someone shouldn't aspire to go to state school or work a humble job for money to get through it, even though given both options, indeed they may dream about the fancy one. Denny's has the best milkshakes anyway and state school is probably a much more sensible place to attend.
This makes Jensen one of those people that climbed all the way from the bottom to the top, which is more admirable.
And yet this is exactly how families talk about their cousins in hushed tones, as bad and immoral as it is.
Although he did graduate high school two years early, so he had the intuition. Maybe his parents thought working food service for a bit was a rite of passage.
Hm, if he graduated early perhaps I can't use him as a positive example to stop me from killing myself. I guess I need to read his early-years biography.
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The "cousin you don't want to be like" is someone with an electrical engineering degree at 21?
Graduating with an EE degree in 3.5 to 4 years is basically the norm? I know dozens of people from my own state school that did that.
And then he went to Stanford so hardly a failure...
Not a failure at all, but Stanford Masters isn't nearly as selective as MIT undergrad or Stanford undergrad.
He also graduated at the age of ~29. Not sure if it was a full-time MS or a part-time program paid for by his employer.
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(-; Indeed always warming to the core to see productive emulation between parallel lines! I'm sure after all their achievements, neither of them wastes time pondering woulda, shoulda, cuda…
You made my day with woulda shoulda cuda.
I’m going to watch finding NeMo now
I couldn't believe this so I had to Google it. First cousins once removed. I don't really know what to think about this...
All US presidents are directly related to each other: https://curiousmindmagazine.com/all-us-presidents-including-...
The world's a stage. :)
That means they're descendent of arguably the most powerful woman in the world's history, Eleanor the Aquitaine [1].
She's married to both King of France and King of England, and mother of three kings during her lifetime including King John Lackland Plantagenet (progenitor of all 43 US presidents except one).
This takes a new meaning to the popular idiom "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree".
[1] Eleanor of Aquitaine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine
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The bottom of that link has a video that is far more meaningful[0]
It asks the question if the presidents are more related to one another than to another random group. The answer to this is no.
This is probably pretty obvious if you actually look at population sizes through time[1]. There's 8 billion people alive today, but we have a billion less in 2010, 1999, (5) 1986, 1974, 1960, 1927, 1800. So in the last 100 years we grew 6 billion people! But in the last 200 years only 7 billion. In 1200 (approximately the time of King John) there was 360 million people in the world. Which is like taking the entire US and distributing across the globe. For reference, there were only 68 million people in Europe[2], which is about the current population of the UK[3] or about the combined population of Tokyo and Delhi (add Shanghai and Sao Paulo if you require city proper).
So you can probably just guess through how quickly population exploded that you're going to have convergent family trees without going back very far. Honestly, I'm more surprised it takes 800 years and not less.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9shzqqcfvfw
[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography
[3] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
A relative from 800 years ago doesn't honestly seem that impressive. That's ~30 generations? That's a whole lot of people. Good luck finding a venue large enough for that family reunion.
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… and you ain’t on it.