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general update - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind

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visited jmm, a large math conference that happened to be held in sf. there were some interesting talks and it was good to see a few of my math friends again, but the conference also drove home the point that i really, really don’t belong in math academia. it’s simply not a good fit culture-wise or interests-wise. in the last few years i’ve occasionally wondered what if i kept pursuing math research in college and became a maybe-successful academic and it’s nice to get some more assurance that, actually, my life is better now and it was worth leaving a thing i might’ve been very good at while at jmm i listened to a talk by terence tao on a subject i knew nothing about (the parity problem in sieve theory). it was incredible - he is extremely good at explaining things just enough for you to begin understanding a complicated topic, without getting slowed down by extra details. listening to him made me think more about the goal of these kinds of talks - i suppose it is to take the audience

general update mostly covering january vincent huang Feb 16, 2024 11 Share stuff that happened: visited jmm , a large math conference that happened to be held in sf. there were some interesting talks and it was good to see a few of my math friends again, but the conference also drove home the point that i really, really don’t belong in math academia. it’s simply not a good fit culture-wise or interests-wise. in the last few years i’ve occasionally wondered what if i kept pursuing math research in college and became a maybe-successful academic and it’s nice to get some more assurance that, actu

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