| ▲ | moomin 3 days ago |
| One day it is hoped that enough mathematicians will have worked on the problem to have finally, definitively answered Steve Ballmer’s interview question. The job will be shared between them. |
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| ▲ | mekoka 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| The real irony being that they show up to work just to discover that it was a software programming position. |
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| ▲ | hehehheh 3 days ago | parent [-] | | But they can't quit once they taste that sweet total comp. | | |
| ▲ | drewcoo 3 days ago | parent [-] | | The "golden abacus" instead of "golden handcuffs?" Or as my undergrad mathematics advisor described friends who left academics for finance, "they spend their days clipping (stock) coupons instead of solving math problems - not as interesting but more interest." | | |
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| ▲ | belter 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Rumor has it that Ballmer resigned after asking this question to a candidate named Aphyr... |
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| ▲ | vlovich123 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Just in time for the job to be replaced with AI. |
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| ▲ | Onavo 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Well, Terrence Tao is trying his very best to replace himself with an AI. | | |
| ▲ | vlovich123 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I think he’s trying to replace his grad students so that he can solve even more interesting problems. | |
| ▲ | Xcelerate 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Terence is fascinating in how different his thinking is even from most other mathematicians. | |
| ▲ | pfdietz 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Which, admittedly, seems like a much harder problem. A world in which AI churns out amazing proofs would be pretty radical though. | |
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