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mettamage on March 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored

IMO, the real smarties work in hft.

amusedcyclist on March 16, 2022 | [–]

The smartest of them all teach math in universities

vajrabum on March 16, 2022 | | [–]

I'm not so sure. At VMware in the 2000s we had Marketing Executive who had been a tenured math professor at Stanford. He joined early probably following the primary technical founder at VMware, Mendel Rosenblum, but still.

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