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by t_fatus 2654 days ago
The point was to illustrate the fact that 'world domination' is a strange word to use when comparing against 3 countries only, leaving aside a lot of well educated students, some of who ranked as the best of their field - for instance korean and french students in ML.

Plus the fact that the US dominates the tech sector has more to do with the available capital there than the technical skills of US students (on average)

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That didn't seem to be the point, since you were implying that EU students are already better and now they are working on getting (to quote you) "more better".

Like I said it's hard to quantify educational programs, but China and Russia both dominate competitive programming competitions, and have for years. Whereas EU simply doesn't (outside of occasionally wins by Poland and Czech Republic).