Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
by viccis on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:05AM
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Based on what I've heard from my math friends in academia, every talented undergrad who was set on going to grad school for math has switched to something like consulting internships or fintech, even if they were really passionate about math, because they don't want to spend another 7 years or so just to wind up jobless.
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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
by done_lurking on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:24AM
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This has always been the risk with majoring in math. AI is making it worse but there was never a time where studying math didn't have an extremely high opportunity cost.