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What do the smartest kids in the world do when they grow up? I did the largest study of ~18,000 International Olympiad medalists (IMO, IOI and IPhO) over the last 25yrs, arguably the sharpest analytical minds of the world in high school, to see where they ended up and traced ~50% of them. Founders of ~20 unicorns and ~7 decacorns and ~10 billionaires: OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, Databricks, Perplexity, Ethereum, Cognition, Hyperliquid, Fireworks, Modal, Quora, Parallel, Cartesia, Wispr Most kids went to MIT, a whopping 12% of them, followed by Cambridge (7%) and Sharif (3%)! The career paths they chose (of those who graduated) were: — 36% Academia (professors) — 26% Other — 22% in Software / Tech — 12% in Quant / Finance — 5% Founders! The biggest employer was Google, by far, at 6%. Others interesting tidbits were: — 47 of them work at Jane Street (#3) — 38 at OpenAI (#5) — 15 at Anthropic — 8 at Cognition — 6 at Isomorphic Labs Olympiaders were 1500x more likely to be billionaires and 4000x more likely to be unicorn founders than the average person!

@deedydas yes please do it!

Methodology: I wrote the vibe coded crawler and used Exa for getting all the data. On examination, it feels like ~5% of the metadata were out of date or incorrect. If there's interest, I can publish the full results in a blog post.

@Giuliano_Mana whic book?

Newton’s 2 years off college was the most astounding display in history of high IQ with unrestrained creative time. “In those days, I was in the prime of my age for invention” (23ys old)

@eatsurenow @eatsurenow I received a call that evening on which I asked for further escalation but now, your team has not called me again and it has been 2 days. What is this customer care?!

@kiuythuu Hi Rajdeep! Please accept our sincere apologies. Getting this checked, and our team will reach out to you shortly. (RB)

An order I placed at 13:45 get automatically cancelled by eatsure app 1 hour later and I am just left with a whatsapp message about refund. What am I supposed to do with the refund now and you have a very pathetic service taking hours to notify that you cant deliver. @eatsurenow

@SridharanAnand Age and Application number (priority to ascending order) are used to rank candidates with same marks across subjects. Your claim is false!

People are talking about 26 kids getting 100 percentile in JEE Mains. But what I'm impressed by is kid with double-a in name getting AIR 1. Need to update my priors.

"omg you remembered!" of course i did. I have a file on you

@RuxandraTeslo recency bias, maybe.

Why has the internet developed an obsession with Von Neumann and not say Euler or Gauss? And from early 20th century someone like Dirac?

I totally dominated you at the museum dude. Pondered every piece for a couple seconds longer. Scratched my chin with more curiosity.

How the worst day in 2019 used to feel like

There is a word for this in German: einstellung. It roughly means that you get a false sense of confidence when you see an answer to a problem and you can track the process of getting to the answer, but without doing the actual work of applying what you’re learning in class to a problem. I used to teach that word to my high school AP economics students since even back in 2013 the game was very clear. One-to-one device policies had made it very easy for students to cheat since their homework assignments because they came from the online textbook loaded on their school-issued laptops. The market being the market, and the slowness of school districts to do anything being legendary, all the textbook answers were already available online to the enterprising honors student. Teaching them about einstellung was their warning. They were all smart enough to reverse engineer an answer when given a textbook. All I did was explain to them that without actually doing the work, they weren’t building the neural framework that would allow them to recall and do the work on their own on quizzes and tests. They took the test in my class with no book, no device, and no phones. That first test taught most of them that einstellung was real and they weren’t immune, no matter how smart everyone had been telling them they were since kindergarten. They had to do the work or they wouldn’t be able to do it under testing conditions which mimicked the conditions under which they’d take the AP exam. The ones who took that lesson to heart ended up with Bs and As in my class. The ones who continued to take the shortcut ended up with Ds and Fs. The argument in K12 now is that AI makes einstellung irrelevant because a kid will always have access to AI. But I think the evidence is beginning to mount that all this has done is render large swaths of the American population illiterate and innumerate and dependent on their phones for judgments on pretty much everything because they have no knowledge against which to judge.

Voltaire once said: "Not to be occupied and not to exist are one and the same thing for a man."

pr tha dosto, ignore.

@CISFAirport T1-IGI airport. Very good handling of security!

@outis_000 @jdlichtman unrelated?

@jdlichtman "No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game." - G H Hardy

In the latest paper of Terry Tao

Terence Tao echoes G.H. Hardy's sentiment about the need for distractions in a mathematician's life: "Four hours creative work a day is about the limit for a mathematician."

@kendalllroyy is it similar to dombivali fast?

umm so there’s this movie

@fracturebaandya @weAllGonnaDye भेंचोत

@weAllGonnaDye भ is key to so many shivya Not negative imo

भ ढ got negative aura let’s be honest