[jng]

I'm so grateful to him, his early work was a massive influence for me as a kid. I lent one of Dewdney's books to a neighbor friend's dad, an architect, and he gave me my first paid gig as a programmer. Can't overstate the influence in my career.

Also, I distinctly remember his column showing how to generate text based on statistics learned from an existing corpus. It has come to mind more than once in this last period of LLM magic -- the essence was already there.

Thank you and rest in peace.