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The Man From the Future

Ananyo Bhattacharya · 2021

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Tim Harford loved it affiliate
Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man From the Future – A biography not only of the genius’s genius, John von Neumann, but also of von Neumann’s ideas and influence, which are nearly impossible to exaggerate. Serious and brilliantly-written.

on timharford.com · 22 Nov 2021

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.