There were just shy of 300 people attending the conference that I was at last week.

During the summer of 1994, I was part of an undergraduate math research program that had 20 students.

Three of the students were at the conference. Me, the hedge fund guy, and the Fields Medalist. Not at the conference but probably should have been: the guy who does really amazing machine vision stuff for Google and who has given a very well-received TED talk.

(I’m near the center. The Fields Medalist is in the lower left.)

Summer 1994