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> Ahmed Almheiri, Xi Dong and Daniel Harlow did calculations ...

It's pretty cool to see a Westerner, Middle Easterner and an East Asian dude (at least based on names ...) collaborate to push the frontiers of science like this!




This happens literally all the time. This is probably more common than uncommon.


> Westerner, Middle Easterner and an East Asian [...] based on names

This international variety of names is common outside the English-speaking world, e.g. the 3 biggest internet companies in China (Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu).




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