A grad student showed up late to class one day, copied two problems off the blackboard, and took them home thinking they were homework. A few days later he turned them in and apologized for taking so long, because they'd been a lot harder than usual. His professor had put them on the board as examples of famous problems in statistics that nobody had ever solved. The kid solved both. His name was George Dantzig, this was Berkeley back in 1939, and one of the engineering leads on Claude just…