bbconn

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   by bbconn 1y ago

   Of course contest math is not research math but the active IMO kids are pretty much the best in the world at math contests.
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   by bbconn 2y ago

   Who is building the Math Academy equivalent for other subjects (especially other sciences)?
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   by bbconn 2y ago

   Introducing: Balanced Fischer chess. Just randomly sample from the starting positions that are more balanced than regular chess.
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   by bbconn 2y ago

   Terence Tao has well over 50K citations. Maybe one can argue that he’s gaming the system because he alone can decide what problems are deemed to be interesting by the broader community, but he can’t help that.
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   by bbconn 2y ago

   Care to share some life changing Tiktok videos?
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   by bbconn 2y ago

   Yes you can get a 7/7 score for a combinatorics problem in IMO with a good amount of handwaving e.g. instead of formally describing a configuration of monsters in P5 of IMO 2024 you can get away with a few sentences that describes what
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   by bbconn 2y ago

   Yeah it made me realize that I actually don't want a human-like conversational bot (I have actual humans for that). Just teach me javascript like a robot.
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   by bbconn 2y ago

   Hi Peter, I'm a pure mathematics PhD student (from SE Asia, studying in the US) graduating at the end of this year. I expect to work at the intersection of finance and tech. I have heard that the standard for O1 visa is a bit lower the