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I am not sure that I've derived long term benefit from some of those parts.

If you wake me up at 3 AM and ask the sqrt of 196 I will say 14 and instantly fall back asleep. But it is there any value in that?

Don't get me wrong I love mathematics and I am sure that knowing the principles and fundamentals is beneficial.

At some point we have to decide what is essential and what is superfluous.

And I think that tools like GPT will put us in a position where we will have to make a lot of decisions very soon.



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