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Path to Success

March 20, 2017

An adult lectures a kid about the single path to success; the kid notes that one path can be parametrized many ways.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-03-20-path-to-success/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Adult: "There's only one path to success in life, kid."

Kid: "Perhaps. But even then, there are many parametrizations of it."

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