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4gravitons.com
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| | | | Do string theorists have an unfair advantage? Do they have an easier time getting hired, for example? In one of the perennial arguments about this on Twitter, Martin Bauer posted a bar chart of faculty hires in the US by sub-field. The chart was compiled by Erich Poppitz from data in the US particle physics... | |
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| | | | You might recall that Shin, Smith, Smolin, and Vazirani posted a widely-discussed preprint a week ago, questioning the evidence for large-scale quantum behavior in the D-Wave machine. Geordie Rose responded here. Tonight, in a Shtetl-Optimized exclusive scoop, I bring you Umesh Vazirani's response to Geordie's comments. Without further ado: Even a cursory reading of our | |
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rjlipton.com
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| | | | Gil Kalai is one of the top researchers in the world in the area of combinatorics. His blog is one of the best in the universe. He also has some of the top results of anyone. One measure of excellence is how important not your results are, but how important your conjectures are. He with... | |
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pshapira.net
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| | The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research held a week-long Early-Career Winter School on AI for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy with over thirty doctoral and post-doctoral participants from ten countries. |