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badlibrarianlast Sunday at 8:40 PM1 replyview on HN

The Fourier Transform isn't even Fourier's deepest insight. Unless we're now ranking scientific discoveries based on whether or not they get a post every weekend on HN.

The FFT is nifty but that's FINO. The Google boys also had a few O(N^2) to O(N log N) moments. Those seemed to move the needle a bit as well.

But even if we restrict to "things that made Nano Banana Pro possible" Shannon and Turing leapfrog Fourier.


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lispisoklast Sunday at 10:52 PM

>Unless we're now ranking scientific discoveries based on whether or not they get a post every weekend on HN.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed there is a weekly (or more) post on what Fourier transform is.

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