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Re:Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort to Help Mathematic... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:21PM (#50106987)
> Why this one and not all the others that have to adapt to the AI era?

Mathematicians are not dummies?

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Re:Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort to Help Mathematic... by yuchtman on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:53PM (#50108471)
Suggesting all the other are dummies? And even if that is what you are suggesting, wouldn't that make them the group that needs support the least?
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Re:Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort to Help Mathematic... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:50PM (#50109299)
> Suggesting all the other are dummies?

In a sense, yes. There is no Simons Foundation for laid-off programmers. Taxi drivers and truckers, meanwhile, are really just trying to block change.

> wouldn't that make them the group that needs support the least?

I don't know. From a practical perspective, I am more confident the world will need mathematicians in 50 years than that it will need coders.

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