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It's because of their Simons Foundation support, but not only because of that. I mean, I invite anyone to name another billionaire pet project of comparable qua
by getnormality 11mo ago
It's because of their Simons Foundation support, but not only because of that. I mean, I invite anyone to name another billionaire pet project of comparable quality.
- robotresearcher 11mo agoCarnegie Libraries, Nobel Prizes, Rhodes scholarships?
- Iwan-Zotow 11mo agoClay Mathematics Institute, with its 7 Millennium problems
- robotresearcher 11mo agoGood one! Stanford & Carnegie Mellon universities...
- gowld 11mo agoMathematica?
- robot-wrangler 11mo agoGood game and a hard question, especially if you make "comparable" more explicit. I'd add "noncommercial, open-access", and "modern" in the sense that it happened under the current norms with respect to legacy and the social contract.
- Iwan-Zotow 11mo agoClay Mathematics Institute, with its 7 Millennium problems
- BobaFloutist 11mo agoI like what MacKenzie Scott is doing in the space of "What it takes to actually spend down billions of dollars"