NYC Marathon apps hit 240,000 — Delip Rao jokes agents freed researchers to run
deliprao · x · 2026-10-31
NYC Marathon lottery applications surged from 84,000 in 2022 to a record 240,000 in 2026, with odds falling from 12% to 1%. Delip Rao quips that exploding conference paper submissions and marathon applications may share a cause: agents giving researchers more free time.
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