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Sam Schillace: Deputy CTO, Microsoft

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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How Did You Go From Being a Theoretical Mathematician to a Software Developer?

i think that discipline is yunow. I had a professor who would occasionally slip an unsolved problem in e into an exam. And what that teaches you is what to do when you are faced with a problem that is literally too hard for you, or anyone else to go solve’ Can you get anything out of it? Ar just the process of making the attempt,. You know, that the the answer that question is like, obviously, yes. iad one of those. Happened by mistake once in one of my advanced classes where the propt would give one two or three stars. One was like, you really should be able to solve this. Two was like, advanced.

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