This definitely calls for celebration in the whole scientific community! Perseverance, a lot of patience, a team of 18 brilliant mathematicians and computer scientists, 64 Gb of RAM: the result is mapping E8, the largest among the exceptional simple Lie groups.
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Econlinks for 19-03-’07
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Joe Stiglitz comes forward with a set of sound arguments for the fact that prizes are much better than patents in medical research (and not only). Greg Mankiw wonders (and he’s got a big point there…) how to support those prizes other than via higher tax rates (I don’t think the competence of the prize committee is a problem…).
Geeky chairs vs. Danish chairs
This comes in nice, after the short ‘Danish design’ exchange of views we had on Troniu’s blog :-). Of course no resemblance, no comparison, to Verner Panton’s (S and more) chairs, true masterpieces.
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I’ve always loved those ‘Transformer’ cartoons. Well, it seems that researchers affiliated with the ‘Information Sciences Institute’ at the University of Southern California are very close to designing some real-life Transformers.
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I bet no one would fall asleep in this sort of presentations.
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