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WWW 2018
I am blogging from Lyon where I find myself for the Web Conference 2018. So far, I’ve attended many interesting talks. I enjoyed a lot Jon Kleinberg’s talk on procrastination. George Akerlof noticed that instead of sending a package by mail with one time-effort of cost , he preferred to postpone this every day until […]
Risk aversion and uncertain graphs
Let’s say that you have 100$ and you want to invest your money wisely. There are two hedge funds that interest you, both of which have the same expected return. How should you invest your 100$? Does it matter if you split it in half, or if you invest all of your money […]
Shortest known paper published
I recently saw a post from OpenCulture. I wrote a few lines of C++ code to search for four numbers less than 144 whose fifth powers sum up to , namely However, the shortest proof of an important result in my opinion is this one, even if there were no mathematical journals in Pythagoras’ time. Do […]
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