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delld16··on Margaret Hamilton has died
Thanks! Truth really is stranger than fiction.

And it seems like she reflected on it quite light-heartedly.

delld16··on Margaret Hamilton has died
A fascinating potential link between the two famous popular books on early computing and mathematics, 'Hackers', and 'Chaos' by James Gleick (two books that shaped my teenage years fwiw).

Is the link to Edward Lorenz just a guess based on the name and subject matter of the project given in the Hackers extract? Or do you have information from some other source that Margaret Hamilton wrote code for Lorenz?

delld16··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Out of interest, what kind of copy do you have of Princes of the Yen?

I looked a little while ago and could only find an extremely expensive second hand copy and a not very good quality pdf.