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curr @mit math & cs // prev @microsoft @kensho @neo

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@ronawang
Rona Wang
2 years
my first math paper is published!! very grateful to my co-authors & the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics for lifting me up. fun fact: my Erdős number is now 2 😊
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@ronawang
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8 months
this job application really said these are the only valid universities
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10 months
was trying to get a linkedin profile photo with AI editing & this is what it gave me 🤨
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7 months
overheard a first date where the guy was explaining some paper to the girl & the girl said “i know, i co-authored that” oh i—
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social life after college is just texting people to “get coffee” a few times a month & then spending $600 to attend someone’s wedding
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8 months
@ChrSorensen67 had to settle for MIT 😥
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?????????
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6 months
kinda scary if this is real
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@ronawang
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10 months
took the "don't be the smartest person in a room" advice too far & now i'm the dumbest person in every room. help
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8 months
brutal
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1 year
never felt so seen by a meme
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who invented lex fridman. where did he come from. what is his actual affiliation with MIT. i need answers
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8 months
seen on campus
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7 months
i picked the wrong major
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@ronawang
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so true
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5 months
many such cases
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@ronawang
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7 months
fun startup story: a Harvard MBA once tried convincing two of my engineering friends (who built the entire app) to give him 95% equity because he was the “ideas guy”
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one of the most salient lessons i learned from attending a university that attracts brilliant people: courage is in shorter supply than intellect
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@ronawang
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higher education unlocks so many career opportunities ❤️
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9 months
it's hard to make friends as an adult
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2 months
bro thinks this is glassdoor
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5 months
being an adult is just sitting with a laptop in different locations
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7 months
imagine waking up to see that scientists used your photo as an example of an ugly person
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@tracyalloway
Tracy Alloway
7 months
"We find that funds with facial unattractive managers outperform funds with attractive managers by over 2% per annum. We next show that good-looking managers attract significant higher fund flow..." (H/T @SnippetFinance )
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@Reelix no that would also be illegal
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@ronawang
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8 months
former gifted kids are now being paid $130k/year to make react components
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@ronawang
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8 months
Men worry about how hot a girl is, women worry about how dangerous a guy is. Introducing FriendOrFoeAI.
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@ehalm_
Emmet Halm
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Introducing SmashOrPassAI, a generative AI party game 🎉 No further explanation needed. You know what to do, boys 🫡
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@LKhye1 pretty sure it’d also be illegal to only ask for female applicants
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@ronawang
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11 months
graduated from MIT with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics & computer science—overwhelming love & gratitude to the school that redefined my limits & redrew my trajectory. the best years of my life (so far!) ❤️
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@ronawang
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“the MIT of Boston” is sending me
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@atemyipod tbf I’m not 100% sure it was a first date (just guessing from the vibes) but the rest is unfortunately real
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@ronawang
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8 months
my friend just got a quant trading offer & showed me his $500k/year entry-level offer … i chose the wrong industry 🥲
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7 months
i like how getting a PhD (often useless) & getting a Nobel Prize (absolutely extraordinary) are lumped together
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@ronawang
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5 months
you’re right, the seventeen-year-olds skipping prom to study for the SAT are going to boycott Harvard over this
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@ronawang
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11 months
is pi rational
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@ronawang
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2 months
in third grade my classmates would say i was the “second-smartest” because there was one boy who could do multiplication tables faster than me anyway now he’s a trader at citadel & im unemployed
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5 months
a story for the ages 🥰
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@memetazaa
gilbert
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delete the dating apps. the love of your life is on twitter
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Rona Wang
7 months
have you guys ever noticed how sometimes an "AI-powered software service" is only functional during regular working hours in the Philippines
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5 months
brutal out here
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@ronawang
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10 months
everybody knows that log(😅) = 💧log(😄) but did you know that log(🤯) = log(☁️) - log(😮)
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@ronawang
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2 months
ok that’s enough
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9 months
some guy made fun of me for being Chinese so i ate his dog
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@ronawang
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6 months
@UltraMagaEnergy sounds like it lol
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my roommates have recently discovered the term “wmaf” & now they’re excitedly pointing out all the wmaf couples on the street like they're playing the license plate game
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7 months
it's tough out here
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6 months
🤭
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5 months
still wondering how Netflix snuck into the FAANG acronym
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5 months
everybody dunking on this dude for going into finance but have y’all seen the academic job markets lately
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As a grad student, Liyang Chen spent a year working out how to carve a nanowire that’s thinner than a single bacterium. Using the wire, Chen helped show that the metal it’s made from — and others like it — may carry electrical charge without electrons.
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linear algebra will be part of C++26 😮
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seeing people in their mid-twenties realize that they hate their post-college job but also don’t know what they truly want to do with their lives
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7 months
how should i respond
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7 months
wtf, did anyone else get this??
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8 months
this actually happened to me once 😔
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6 months
happy halloween
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@ronawang
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7 months
My friends and I built a bot that mass-applies for jobs. Upload your information once and apply to hundreds of companies, including smaller places you may not have heard of. If you’re seeking software engineering new grad or intern roles, join our beta by commenting “go” 🙂
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7 months
agi this agi that why don't you get agirlfriend instead
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6 months
@BillAckman @MIT this couldn’t have happened this morning at MIT — we don’t have class today. where did you find this video? it looks like a lecture recording
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10 months
he got me there
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7 months
update: he saw this
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brutal
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i once tweeted a joke about how tech is overhyped & somebody responded with “we build gods out of sand”
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5 months
graduated from college 🥹
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@ATMwithJacy
Jacy, LPC
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BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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@ronawang
Rona Wang
5 months
apologies to anyone who liked my tweet about lex & got blocked as a result
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let’s fucking gooooooo
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@ronawang
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i love being a woman in stem
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girls going for wall street quant boys who can’t even grocery shop … you’re worrying about the wrong trader joe
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@satyanadella i take back every mean thing i said about bing
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getting laid (off)
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2 years
@ismarygp googled Melvin Ortiz and the only review on Free Melvin Ortiz is a one star from John Caltigrone … now come on 😭
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are nerds okay
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thanks, very cool
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many such cases
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looking forward to the $7 million seed round
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@ronawang
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i’m tired of dating app conversations that never lead to anything, so my friends & i spent the last week building a platform that schedules dates as soon as you match. if you want to fall in love irl & not through a screen, join us at ❤️
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2 months
life update: just sent this email. school will have to wait 🫡
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wtf, did anyone else get this??
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debugged a student’s code that made no sense. found out he used GitHub copilot, which generated a bunch of garbage 😭
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@ronawang
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applying to yc, wish me luck!!
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dudes complaining about mortgages while getting rejected by every girl … you’re worried about the wrong interest rate 😭
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i once worked at a company with bad glassdoor reviews so the CEO made us all go on glassdoor & write good reviews
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went on a date with an econ phd & found out he just wanted help with his real analysis homework
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@Reelix can you show an example of a job recruiting listing that says “only female candidates will be considered”?
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working in academia like
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why are awkward ugly nerds in the movies always getting into princeton or inventing facebook or something... we need more representation for awkward ugly nerds who are ALSO stupid
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now why would he do this
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React for Python now exists 😮
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wtf. my ex asked to talk & when i showed up, emmett shear was sitting there
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actually my shirt says MID
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in high school i got rejected by a guy who "wasn't usually into asians." i was more confused than offended, because he was also asian
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I was holding my two year old daughter on a walk moments ago and for the first time out of nowhere she said, “I’m in the arena trying stuff.” I started to quietly tear up. She couldn’t see my face, but she said, “Some will work, some won’t. But always learning.”
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Chase Geiser
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I was holding my two year old daughter on a walk moments ago and for the first time out of nowhere she said, “God is good. God is real.” I started to quietly tear up. She couldn’t see my face and I didn’t make a sound, but she said, “Don’t cry. It’s okay.”
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this is so funny to me
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anybody who wants STEM students to take humanities requirements has not suffered from the presence of that one smug physics major playing devil’s advocate in a philosophy seminar. don’t inflict that on more people
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haters said i could never make money from posting. now who's laughing
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@R0b0tSp1der very strong at c++ & low-latency performance. if you’re interested in learning more, i suggest checking out 6.172 on MIT OCW, watching cpp con videos, doing codeforces, making personal projects
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i didn’t expect to meet another YC founder here
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solved the riemann hypothesis & all i got was admission to mit 😞
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uh oh
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yc this yc that y don’t you c a girl instead
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no way
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@ronawang
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i once tutored a girl in a similar situation — her parents refused to pay for her engineering degree because “that’s not what girls do” 😔
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