Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII, realized that human processing power was becoming the ultimate bottleneck for handling the massive volume of scientific output being generated globally during the war effort.

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Anil Nattu

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He had a bird's-eye view of the sheer volume of scientific output being generated across the globe. And looking at all these disparate research papers, military reports, scientific breakthroughs, he realized that human processing power was becoming the ultimate bottleneck.

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Karpathy Method for Building a Second BrainAnil Nathoo
Created: 8/13/2026, 9:52:16 AM

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