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I am an Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department of the University of Colorado in Boulder.

My mathematical work has been in Set Theory (almost disjoint type families) and Computability theory (effective randomness and reverse mathematics).

Right now I am preparing for a career change towards information technology. I feel I have worked enough on foundational questions in mathematics, and am ready for new challenges.

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I think it might only be a waste if you can come up with a way to predict who is going to be the person with a BA in English that doesn't use it. If you can't predict it, then it means that those who do use it are more expensive than sticker price (their cost would be "total costs to get people BA's in English"/"total number of people that actually use it").

Here (where you have to search through Fibonacci numbers) I suspect memoization is rather the way to go:

  # memoized fibonacci function
  fibtable = {1:1, 0:1}

  def fib (n):
      global fibtable
      if n in fibtable.keys():
          return fibtable [n]
      val = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2)
      fibtable [n] = val
      return val

I belief the Fields Medal is not only given to people below 40 b/c there are no older people deserving; I belief it is given to younger people b/c they can most benefit from getting such recognition.

"The first thing we always do is make slight modifications to what we already have."

rather contrasts with

"The next big difference is that we changed colors and went from cardboard to white to spark the interest of people walking by instead of automatically having negative associations that they have with cardboard and homeless people."

The second can (and in the context of the article maybe should) be tested. The small change is to make exactly the same text on the different material.

I really hope that app stores are on their way out, for exactly the reason the article gives (lack of openness). So even though I am at this point doubtful about them actually being on the decline, I like seeing articles that suggest they are. Maybe the articles can help with this decline.

How much free content do they need to tie it back to you? Remember AOL releasing some search queries, and quickly people were identified. I imagine that is not hard with facebook interactions either.

The code for my lock would not be found this way. Choosing the correct 3rd number (which obviously I know) my whole code does not appear in the suggestions to try.