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UB Hacking 2024

I attended the University at Buffalo Hacking event over the weekend. It was fun. There were 90+ projects, I judged 15 projects. There were some interesting talks as well. It was good to see youth energy. It feels good to teach next generation something. Another thing,  GeoGuessr played as a group game under time pressure is a lot of fun. This may be a great family activity. Why should you care about proofs, if all you want to do is coding? Atri and Andrew decided this would be a good talk to give at a hackathon. Daring! They did a good job imparting their passion about the joys and benefits of mathematical thinking. They talked about Paul Erdos 's the book of proofs concept, and the difference between a  correct proof versus a great proof from "the book". They talked about the deep insight that you can achieve through an abstract mathematical thinking. They also mentioned that if you don't have good insight to the problem or your program, you will have a hard time de

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