I found his website, https://www.lemire.me/en/ , and the "2%" brag is the very first sentence, geez.
Being the top x% is what OnlyFans girls brag about, professor...
And it's not exactly brain surgery, is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
> Daniel Lemire’s blog is one of the top 50 most popular blogs on Hacker News, the standard tech news aggregation site.
Citation needed