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by wpietri 4273 days ago
Heh. Yeah, a lot of the actual PhD-types I know are amateur coders on a mission, and their code matches that.

I'm sure you get it, but just for the record, by math-professor I meant "very focused on things that to most people seem incredibly abstract", with a side of "passionate about solving intellectual challenges for their own sake".