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Before his downfall, Sam Bankman-Fried drew comparisons to Warren Buffett, J.P. Morgan and other titans of finance. As his trial approaches, WSJ’s Caitlin Ostroff charts the meteoric rise of crypto’s golden boy, exploring how he sold customers and powerful people on his ideas, while hiding secrets under the hood of his flashy crypto empire.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -Johann von Neumann Sometimes, I have to deal with series: lots of numbers all added together. Some series clearly approach a limit, like the following: 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 + ... I can visualize this in terms of pies. (What do you want? I'm hungry!) One = one whole pie. So that first number starts me out with one whole pie.

There is a line in a George Bernard Shaw play that goes: “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” This derogatory phrase reflects poor appreciation of the teaching profession. History is lined with some great doers and achievers who have taught at the same time. Albert Einstein, Robert Frost,