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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You get picked up as a pet project by the Financial Engineering Professor at your college who teaches you a lot of statistical wizardry and sthochastic calculus and grooms you to become his newest and greatest quant he can brag to his Wallstreet buddies about. They have already seen your projects with the professor, the interview is pomp.

    You make 2M your first year and are making well over 10M by your fifth year. You work 80+ hours a week, making some other people very, very rich. After a decade you are very burnt out and wondered why you ever wanted to do this in the first place. You quit your ridiculously high paying job at your hedge or whatever fund and move to upstate NY to get your teaching credentials and then go teach maths to high school students who will ask “when will this ever be useful” and you smile in your quietude over the whifs of the coffee in your thermos as the students finish the pop quiz of the day.

    That’s what mathematicians do in my experience.


  • Sure, but I would rather watch sports where everyone has disadvantages. Like a football team and each literal handicap adds to like a numerical handicap.

    So the some of the best football teams will have quarterbacks with one arm, kickers with one legg and running backs with a half of an arm.

    Imagine the betting… What are the odds that the mentally handicapped coach will have the one legged kicker go for a field goal at the 38 yard line?