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Commencement Speech: Cheap Approximations

June 7, 2017Original blog post

'All problems have solutions, or at least cheap approximations good enough for industry.'

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-06-07-commencement-speeches-for-mathematicians--commencement-speech-cheap-approximations/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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"Believe this: all problems have solutions, or at least cheap approximations good enough for industry."

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