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Reminds me of reading about at least one case where a problem was solved in a situation like that. Anyone recall what it was?
by jbpetersen 10y ago
Reminds me of reading about at least one case where a problem was solved in a situation like that. Anyone recall what it was?
- jordigh 10y agoDantzig solved an open problem in statistics which he thought was being causally assigned as homework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_st...
- jbn 10y agoI think you mean "casually", not "causally" (even though it's kind the interesting Freudian slip, IMHO).