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    2. The 3 Pillars of Zen  :

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    3. Eliezer Yudkowsky

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    5. Manuel Blum

    6. Kaggle

    7. Merkle’s Puzzles

    8. George Dantzig  :

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    9. Jerzy Neyman  :

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    11. PARC (company)

    12. Walter Isaacson  :

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    13. Ms. Pac-Man

    14. John von Neumann

    15. Edward Teller

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    17. The Human Use of Human Beings

    18. Nth Country Experiment

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    22. Jure Robič

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    24. Benjamin Franklin

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    28. Phaethon

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    30. Winston Churchill

    31. Lady Randolph Churchill

    32. Hunter College Elementary School

    33. Bill Murray

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    35. Glenn Horowitz  :

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    37. Peter Singer

    38. Hans Eysenck

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