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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Alleged shortage of mathematicians (was Re: M
- Message-ID: <1422@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 21:30:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.213755.18417@husc3.harvard.edu> <1413@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Dec17.001527.18598@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <1992Dec17.001527.18598@husc3.harvard.edu> kubo@boucher.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo) writes:
- >In article <1413@kepler1.rentec.com>
- >andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
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- > Now, your own job might not be fraught with too many of
- >these distractions, but if anything what I have described is a lot more
- >representative than the rather peculiar conditions of your employment.
-
- Actually, I could have said many of the things about my present in reference
- to the previous job I had with a major Wall Street Firm. It wasn't quite
- the same of course, but it was pretty enlightened. I know other people
- in other places with roughly similar jobs.
-
- > From what I've heard the best work environments
- >are not in business or academia, but in independent institutes such as IDA.
-
- Actually, the place I'm at now was started by some people from IDA. I think
- that they're probably somewhat 'purer' then us.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-