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The Mozart Of Math

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025

[OPRT had its earnings call yesterday (here’s the transcript) and upped its guidance to projected earnings of $1.20-$1.40 a share for the year.  Were it to trade at 10X the mid-point of that range (for context, the S&P 500 trades at around 29X earnings), the stock would about double from yesterday’s close.]



Yesterday’s post was way too long — four posts, really — but as Seth Meyers made clear Monday night, that’s where we are these days — multiple huge news stories every day.

Today, just a few disparate items, some of which you may already have seen:


Adam Schiff has two words for the President.


Trump Taps George Santos to Head Dept. Of Labor Statistics.


How to Identify Fugitive Democrats
By Texas Governor Greg Abbott


10 seconds of advice from “the happy grownup.”


He’s the ‘Mozart’ of Math and Trump Killed His Funding


The latest casualty in the administration’s assault on higher education is a legendary researcher who embodies the best of America.

He was 7 when he started calculus, 13 when he became the youngest person ever to win the International Mathematical Olympiad, and 19 when he started his Ph.D. at Princeton.

Tao’s work on prime numbers has provided crucial insights into random-number generation, which is the way computers produce the (nearly) unpredictable figures that are necessary for cryptography and cybersecurity. His research into the math of imaging has helped to make MRIs faster and smarter. . . .


Read it and weep.




Finally, in case you missed yesterday’s first item, I offer it again. It’s just such an important clip.


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