Personal Question From Jared L

wooly_chicken · #1 11-30-2006, 07:39 AM

Becoming a tenured math professor at a "top 5" school is incredibly difficult and requires much more than just intelligence (and certainly much more than being one of the "top 100" 14 year olds in math, science, and logic whatever that means).

David Sklansky · #2 11-30-2006, 07:52 AM

I'm assuming that there are at least 2000 such people. Plus another 10,000 who are essentially equal but chose another path. If that's true, I stick to my statement.

Many of you don't realize that I have met several people of that ilk. And when the conversation sticks to subjects that I know about, they have been at least as likely to learn from me as the other way around. Nesbit Ankeny from MIT and Persi Diaconis from Stanford are two examples. Diaconis now teaches my "coincidence" concept in Poker Gaming and Life in some of his classes.

khandom · #3 11-30-2006, 05:10 PM

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Nesbit Ankeny from MIT and Persi Diaconis from Stanford are two examples. Diaconis now teaches my "coincidence" concept in Poker Gaming and Life in some of his classes.

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LOL ... I happen to go Stanford and have taken a couple classes from Diaconis. I mentioned you and I can pretty safely say he doesn't think much of you David, nor does he "teach" in depth any of your material in his classes except in passing as a pedomorphic side note. Your claims are laughable at best.

eviljeff · #4 11-30-2006, 05:49 PM

David I don't mean to be insulting in any way here. how would you rate the size of your ego vs the rest of 2p2?

baronzeus · #5 11-30-2006, 05:51 PM

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Nesbit Ankeny from MIT and Persi Diaconis from Stanford are two examples. Diaconis now teaches my "coincidence" concept in Poker Gaming and Life in some of his classes.

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LOL ... I happen to go Stanford and have taken a couple classes from Diaconis. I mentioned you and I can pretty safely say he doesn't think much of you David, nor does he "teach" in depth any of your material in his classes except in passing as a pedomorphic side note. Your claims are laughable at best.

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I also go to Stanford, and I want you to post the dialog between you and the professor here. I don't believe that you actually asked him anything.

El Diablo · #6 11-30-2006, 06:14 PM

khan,

Could you explain your usage of the word pedomorphic there and how it applies to that material? Thanks.

Also, sweet post. I look forward to David's response. It's about time we had some high drama around these parts.

goodsamaritan · #7 11-30-2006, 06:19 PM

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khan,

Could you explain your usage of the word pedomorphic there and how it applies to that material? Thanks.

Also, sweet post. I look forward to David's response. It's about time we had some high drama around these parts.

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Of course the guy who posted that has 1 post.

alphatmw · #8 11-30-2006, 06:22 PM

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khan,

Could you explain your usage of the word pedomorphic there and how it applies to that material? Thanks.

Also, sweet post. I look forward to David's response. It's about time we had some high drama around these parts.

[/ QUOTE ] david isn't going to respond because khandom probably doesn't know diaconis' first name

stinkypete · #9 11-30-2006, 07:02 PM

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khan,

Could you explain your usage of the word pedomorphic there and how it applies to that material? Thanks.

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PairTheBoard · #10 11-30-2006, 08:42 PM

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khan,

Could you explain your usage of the word pedomorphic there and how it applies to that material? Thanks.

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Looks like he claims the professor uses DS's ideas as examples of childish or naive forms for the concepts the professor is teaching.

The Dictionary entry I found for "pedomorphic" is the adjective form, of or pertaining to "pedomorphism" which means, "Retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult".

PairTheBoard