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J’ai écrit cette nouvelle afin de garder vivant le souvenir du Dr Tokai. Car, pour moi, écrire est le meilleur moyen de ne pas oublier. J’ai changé les noms et les lieux de façon à protéger les intéressés, mais, hormis cela, ce que j’ai retranscrit est tout à fait conforme à la réalité. Ce serait bien que le jeune Gotô puisse lire ce texte, un jour

science, the tension between exploration and exploitation takes its most concrete form in a scenario called the “multi-armed bandit problem.”

Institutions can also help enable more independent research. I’m lucky to have found an organization, Protocol Labs, that funds research in all sorts of unusual ways. Having tried this both ways, I can say that having a steady salary (and health insurance!) allows me to do much better work than when I was worried about my next source of funding. Li

In 2020, Avital Balwit had won a Rhodes Scholarship and turned it down, first to run Carrick Flynn’s congressional campaign and then to give away FTX’s money. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who had entered Columbia University at the age of fifteen and graduated four years later as class valedictorian, had just declined a spot at Yale Law School to work for

Wealth is famously insecure, Mrs. Haven, and even the greatest art is shackled to its culture and its age; a scientific breakthrough, by contrast, is timeless.

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger even explicitly stated:

Après une âpre lutte qui dure des jours, on en vient à un compromis très bourgeois : on va fonder la grande expérience sur des bases raisonnables. Honoré en fera à sa tête, il pourra essayer de devenir un homme de lettres illustre. Comment il y parviendra, c’est son affaire. La famille de son côté s’intéresse à cette entreprise hasardeuse avec un c