Every once in a while I look at a Putnam exam and wonder a) how you solve any of the problems and b) why anyone would care about any of them
@St_Rev Hmpf. Maybe, since doing well on Putnam gets you a position, whole math profession now optimized for artificial objective function.
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@Meaningness Well, Feynman and Milnor did win it. The idea of kids *studying* for it though...ugh -
@St_Rev Defending my crackpot hypothesis: F & M won it when Putnam had not yet sucked field into tail-chasing death spiral of triviality. - 6 more replies
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@St_Rev I blame drama in previous tweet on tummy oog :-) -
@Meaningness hahaha
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@St_Rev Jesus, just saw the new Twitter by mistake. They are imitating iOS 7, a known epic UX fail. Everyone in world is a fucking idiot.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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