just remembered that one time when Bernard Chazelle proved that, unlike 99.9999% of humans, birds totally understand the Ackermann hierarchy arxiv.org/pdf/0905.4241
Tim Roughgarden
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Columbia CS professor. Head of Research at a16z crypto. Research on algorithms, game theory, mechanism design, blockchains/web3. Author of Algorithms Illuminated, Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory, and Beyond the Worst-Case Analysis of Algorithms.