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This "stupid site" is a national treasure. This is Quanta Magazine, which is printing high quality science stories that no one else approaches. If they went un
by julianeon 2y ago
This "stupid site" is a national treasure.
This is Quanta Magazine, which is printing high quality science stories that no one else approaches. If they went under those stories, like this one, would simply be lost.
How can Quanta Magazine do that, when no other magazine can? It's because they're bankrolled by Jim Simons, the MIT-trained mathematician who co-founded Renaissance technologies and was called the "greatest hedge fund manager of all time" (he died this year). It's basically his gift to the world. We are lucky to have it.
- chamomeal 2y agoI love quanta magazine!! Always exciting to see quanta articles pop up on hacker news. They’re usually technical enough to be fascinating, but also accessible (and well-explained) enough that I can send them to my dad lol. I had no idea about Jim Simons. What a legend. I recently was looking to see if they had a physical subscription, and couldn’t find one. I actually didn’t even see anywhere to donate on the site!
- patcon 2y agoThanks for this context!