News & Musings
News & Musings
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my poem "greedy algorithm" in @annuletpoetics 🔮👾
Last week I had the strange but very positive experience of attending a conference in celebration of my 60th birthday (which was a few months ago). The talks were wonderful but slightly hard to find on YouTube, so I've made a playlist of most of them. 🧵
The time in Israel right now is 11:37pm but it's 11:59pm for the world.
La Régalade, ad litteram
https://laregalade.paris/
Edvard Grieg à quatre-mains, avec mon cher @VikingurMusic https://w.lnk.to/4hands
Récemment visité la magnifique exposition Brâncusi au Centre Pompidou — e.a. la toute première rencontre de ma fille avec les chefs-d'œuvre du maestro : elle a adoré ! https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/mb7ZAkc
PS. Visite évidemment conclue par un Sauternes sur la terrasse du restaurant Le Georges.
Ocazie să ne reamintim și de tratamentul la care a fost— și, într-o oarecare măsură încă mai este — supus Brâncuși în țara-i natală... https://twitter.com/sbuhai/status/1495013850038652931
🏆 Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the IAS School of Mathematics, has been named by @TheOfficialACM as the recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing." Read more:
Great choice!
Nu de "restructurare", ci de *desființare și renaștere* a Academiei Române e nevoie.
Până atunci, toți cei ce-i îngroașă rândurile (și cei ce-i aduc, naiv sau interesat, elogii) rămân complici la perpetuarea unei entități falimentare—științific și moral...
Ioan-Aurel Pop: Funcţionarea Academiei Române şchioapătă foarte mult. Ştiţi fiecare dintre dumnea...
Academia Română analizează restructurarea prestigiosului for de consacrare, după modelele academiilor care nu au trecut prin regimul comunist.
www.hotnews.ro