Talk:David Patterson (computer scientist)

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Anecdotal & Early Life

Having known Dave for approximately sixty years, I can relate a few relevent things. We were classmates at Riviera Elementary School, South Torrance High School, and UCLA.

Dave's South Torrance High School advisor advised him to learn a trade other than mathematics or in STEM, since she discerned no latent skills or talent. I went to the same school, and can vouch for their many astute advisors during that time period. The moral is self-evident.

Dave's poker skills the past fifty years have been characterized by too little attention to strategies from "Maverick"'s famous little book, and over-confidence when sand-bagging. Enough said.

Dave remains famously fit, witness the weight-lifting. However, a few of his cronies are a bit alarmed when he gets on the soccer field along with students less than half his age.

Big Blue was claiming involvement in RISC in the mid-1980s, after Patterson had broken much of that ground. Whatever efforts that enterprise had undertaken were squandered by inefficiency, breathtaking waste and greed, and incoherent communications with all other sectors of IT in the world. In other words, business as usual for immensely wealthy enterprises. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sidney orr (talk • contribs) 05:56, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

None of this is, in fact, relevant (sic), and does not belong on this page. -- Jibal (talk) 06:30, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]