Made up rules

Constraints that only exist because you believe them

In 1939, a graduate student named George Dantzig arrived late to a statistics lecture at Berkeley. His professor, Jerzy Neyman, had, by the time Dantzig walked in, written two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig assumed they were homework, copied them down, and spent the next few days working through them. He later said they ‘seemed to be a little harde…