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Yeah I started reading that from the Wiki citation. Yikes. Academia is brutal.


Man, it's so weird and pathetic

All of these guys are probably a hundred times smarter than me or most of the other code monkeys working for the FANGMAN, but they're all squabbling over little 5-figure scraps of grant money.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

  In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake


I think it’s their egos they’re squabbling over, not grant money.


Zhang evidently doesn't care about money at all. The same is true for many professonal mathematicians. Caring about money makes it difficult (not impossible) to do anything deep.




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