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Looks like the NSA puzzles are a lot harder.
by i_like_apis 4y ago
Looks like the NSA puzzles are a lot harder.
- defrost 4y agoOr kids in Australia are smarter ... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao
- bamboozled 4y agoWhat does this link have to do with anything, it says he is an Australian-American mathematician originally from HK. Not sure how this works that smoothly to demonstrate your point.
- handspun 4y agoJust to clarify, his parents were from Hong Kong. Terrence was born, raised, and schooled in Adelaide, Australia. He completed his Bachelors and Masters at Flinders University by the age of 16.
- defrost 4y agoAs clarified by handspun Terry was born, raised, educated here in Australia - largely homeschooled he had support from the Australian public school and university system which did at the time a pretty decent job of lifting young talent, he was part of the same undergrad math club group that had Paul Erdos visiting that spawned a few crypto punks, cosmologists, math professors, etc.
- keyle 4y agoI don't think it aimed at being achievable only by few. They mentioned in the release of the coin that it was celebratory. So if it brings kids to being aware of such puzzles and gets the press to open more eyes to it, it's a bigger win than some super nerdy puzzle designed to hire future analysts.