Interview with Susam Pal: Computing and Mathematics Discussion from Lobsters Community
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Summary
This is a transcript of an interview with Susam Pal conducted by Alex from the Lobsters community, covering computing, mathematics, and related topics. The interview was edited and rearranged for better flow and readability, and this page preserves a copy of the original discussion. The content spans technical topics in computing and mathematics, presented in an interview format.
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· 5 pulledI recently had an engaging conversation with Alex (@veqq) from the Lobsters community about computing, mathematics and a range of related topics.
Our conversation was later published on the community website as Lobsters Interview with Susam.
I should mention the sections presented in that post are not in the same order in which we originally discussed them.
The sections were edited and rearranged by Alex to improve the flow and avoid repetition of similar topics too close to each other.
This page preserves a copy of our discussion as
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