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Enthusiasm and Feedback Leads to a Cool Project: From the Weighted Random Pattern Chronicles

“Frankly Lou, I have had summer jobs that have been much more interesting,” I told my boss. Running enthusiastically into my boss’s boss’s office I blurted out “Bob, I heard this engineer Franco describe a test method called Weighted Random Patterns. I found it so fascinating.” As a young engineer at IBM in the mid-1980’s…

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