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João Tomé

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<aside> <img src="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" alt="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Hey world! Just doing some website tests here, for now. Checking how things work setting up my own domain (with Cloudflare) and using a simple Notion page for the rest.

My Portuguese page is still here: joaotome.com. This is… joaotome.org.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" alt="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Science heroes of mine from the last few years include.

Richard Feynman

Carl Sagan

Alan Turing

Ada Lovelace

Steven Hawking

Roger Penrose

Isaac Asimov

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"The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better." — Douglas Engelbart

"What we want is a machine that can learn from experience." — Alan Turing, 1947

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