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"True breakthroughs in all sorts of fields seems to happen with folks who seem to be part of a formal or informal cliques ... The challenge is to find and encourage the formation of more clusters well in time where further expansion and attraction of talent can happen.". I think you are fully right here, and the future of education should bring together necessary tools (people, inventions, directives, methods, etc.) in order to lead to more breakthroughs in the world.

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Rohit, are genius clusters a lá Hungary an indicator of something going on at a level we are innately blind to? Kind of like occupying a part of a de Sitter manifold we don't have access to? You obviously are a genius of the lateral connectivity type. Congratulations, though your burden may be the innate profundity you see in everything. The multiple right answers. The ideas coming faster than you have time to write them down....

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> It's that oftentimes there existed translucent and tenuous maps that showed potential routes to actually conquer these fields.

Just like Richard Hamming said to work on problems that have an attack vector

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

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I looked up all of the Hungarian "geniuses" on wikipedia.Quite surprisingly they are all, all of them, Jewish-- although several converted to Christianity for probably social and career and perhaps actual survival reasons.

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