20-Year-Old Mathcamp Photo Surfaces: the Nerdy Summer Camp That Produced SBF
anpaure · x · 2026-09-06
Well-known AI researcher suchenzang dug up photos from over 20 years ago at Mathcamp, musing that the "summer camp for nerds" went on to produce "legendary creatures" like Sam Bankman-Fried just a few years later. A reply jokes that the second photo is "the most mathcamp looking picture ever." A nostalgic slice of the shared math-olympiad-camp background common among AI researchers.
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