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That’s starting at 7:30am, working to 10pm. Every day. Nothing else.

Call me skeptical.

04.08.2025 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

101.5 hours / week is 14.5 hours a day, every day for 2.5 years.

04.08.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m willing to bet that the process of maths research is going to look a lot different in a 5 years time.

22.07.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I plugged in your question about the max guaranteed win from betting on playing cards to every LLM I could find. Gemini was the only one which got the correct answer.

22.07.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In case it’s not obvious,Merced being the smallest of the UCs, and one of only two in counties where Trump won the plurality of the 2024 vote share (the other being Riverside).

13.07.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or he could make a donation: that’s $5 billion he was planning to give to Stanford would instantly give it the 22nd largest endowment.

13.07.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So the best option to solve Marc’s problem would be to tax him more to fund a massive expansion of UC Merced.

13.07.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These guys are supposed to be into looking for ways to scale solutions to problems. And as you point out, we did: they’re called state universities.

If you look at a list of the Top 100 US universities, typical the only ones in the list founded after WWII are the newer UCs.

13.07.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

MIT and Stanford enroll 3k undergraduates each year , or about 0.1% of graduating high schoolers in the US. They can’t also get in because, well, most people don’t!

13.07.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How did I forget Carmen San Diego.

08.07.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last names as place names are always bad ass: Johnny Utah, Duncan Idaho.

07.07.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Eh, a lot of math departments get to justify their relatively large size despite their paltry grant funding by teaching service courses.

02.06.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My hot take: out of order execution needs out of order programming language.

05.05.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also he was about the same age as Julia Childs who also grew up in Pasadena. Just saying there is an interesting alternative history there.

27.04.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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