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Arthur Benjamin: The Mathemagician Who Calculates Faster Than a Calculator
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Dominic O’Brien Trained His Memory to Win Eight World Championships
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Joe Simpson, the Mountaineer Who Crawled Back From Siula Grande
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Beck Weathers, the Everest Climber Left for Dead Who Walked Back Into Camp
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The Christmas Carolers After Shark Tank: Barbara’s 60% Deal, Expansion and Current Status
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Alex Honnold Climbed El Capitan Without a Rope After Years of Preparation
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Ueli Steck, the Swiss Machine Who Climbed the Eiger in 2 Hours 23 Minutes
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Courtney Dauwalter, the Ultrarunner Who Won Three 100-Milers in One Summer
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Ranulph Fiennes Reached Both Poles, Then Climbed Everest at 65
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Buckle Me Up Net Worth: What the Evidence Supports
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Steve Jobs Made Technology Feel Like a Designed Experience
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Bill Gates Put Software at the Center of the Personal-Computer Revolution
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Steve Wozniak Designed the Computers That Put Apple on the Map
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Larry Page Saw the Web as a Graph—and Built PageRank to Navigate It
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Sergey Brin Helped Turn Web Links Into a Map of Useful Information
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Mark Zuckerberg Turned a Campus Network Into a Global Social Platform
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Katherine Johnson Calculated the Paths That Carried Astronauts Into Orbit
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Jürgen Schmidhuber Helped Give Neural Networks a Long-Term Memory
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Yoshua Bengio Made Deep Learning Better at Representing the World
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Yann LeCun Taught Neural Networks to See Patterns in the World
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Geoffrey Hinton Helped Neural Networks Learn Their Way Into the Mainstream
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Linus Torvalds Built a Kernel That Became a Global Collaboration
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Tim Berners-Lee Connected the World With an Open Web
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