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Somebody has to pay for it: Quanta magazine is financed by the Simons Foundation (Hedge Fund billionaire). Noema seems to be a pet project of Nicolas Berggrue
by hackandthink 4y ago
Somebody has to pay for it:
Quanta magazine is financed by the Simons Foundation (Hedge Fund billionaire).
Noema seems to be a pet project of Nicolas Berggruen (Hedge Fund billionaire).
The name sounded familiar:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen#Berggruen_bei_Karstadt https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen#Berggruen_be...
- mr_mitm 4y agoI haven't heard of Jim Simons before, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. He sounds like quite a character. I, too, would stop wearing socks and fund a non-profit science magazine if I had a billion dollars.
- mikeodds 4y agoIf you want some further reading on him, the man who solved the market, is not a bad read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889703-the-man-who-solved-the-market https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889703-the-man-who-sol...
- hackandthink 4y agoHe is the Simons of Chern–Simons theory.
- gnatman 4y agoI liked his interview with numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
- belter 4y agoThe story how he got fired ...https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0 https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
- ArtWomb 4y agoQuality is evident immediately from the lead story on Noema: "A Parliament of Earthlings". Fascinating read for a Sunday morning on AI efforts to enhance whale conservation (with plenty of knowing nods to Star Trek IV). At least the first half of the article felt that way. But instead the article just sort of devolves into a rolling argument for a "Gaia 2.0" hypothesis. Curious, I delved a bit deeper. And what I found is a kind of supremacy of faith in our ability to delivery planet-scale geoengineering. Terraforming Planet Earth, in a nutshell ;) https://www.noemamag.com/planetary-sapience/ https://www.noemamag.com/planetary-sapience/