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That's not what "scoops" means! A scoop is publishing something before a rival can. You scoop the rival, not the story/prize.
"If you scoop a prize or award, you win it."
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What an ignorant thing to say.
Care to expand on why and give a correction?
That's not what "scoops" means! A scoop is publishing something before a rival can. You scoop the rival, not the story/prize.
It does in British English, and this is a British university writing in their native language.
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One thing I learned: he did his work while at Warwick. Warwick is kind of under-estimated among UK universities. It's reasonably well-run (which makes it almost unique), regularly hires smart people, and doesn't have the Brideshead Revisited hangover of Oxbridge.
Basically since Warwick was founded, it had a reputation for being the place people went to when they were rejected from oxbridge. This sounds bad but one subtlety with the U.K. system is that almost all students may apply to at most one of Oxford and Cambridge in any given year and those universities tend to get more sufficiently good applicants than they take in. If one of Oxford or Cambridge is commonly considered…
This prize isn’t too highly regarded. The physics prize has mostly consisted of string theorists giving it to their friends in the field.
Wow this is an astronomically absurd Hacker News put-down.
There is a 2014 Quanta Magazine article on Martin Hairer which I found interesting. https://www.quantamagazine.org/hearing-music-in-noise-martin...
One thing I learned: he did his work while at Warwick. Warwick is kind of under-estimated among UK universities. It's reasonably well-run (which makes it almost unique), regularly hires smart people, and doesn't have the Brideshead Revisited hangover of Oxbridge.
That's not what "scoops" means! A scoop is publishing something before a rival can. You scoop the rival, not the story/prize.
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Warwick is particularly well regarded for its mathematics department.
I thought it was well known it was ahead of Oxford for Maths, second only to Cambridge and Imperial
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/universi... https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin... https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/r...
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One thing I learned: he did his work while at Warwick. Warwick is kind of under-estimated among UK universities. It's reasonably well-run (which makes it almost unique), regularly hires smart people, and doesn't have the Brideshead Revisited hangover of Oxbridge.
Basically since Warwick was founded, it had a reputation for being the place people went to when they were rejected from oxbridge. This sounds bad but one subtlety with the U.K. system is that almost all students may apply to at most one of Oxford and Cambridge in any given year and those universities tend to get more sufficiently good applicants than they take in. If one of Oxford or Cambridge is commonly considered…
This prize isn’t too highly regarded. The physics prize has mostly consisted of string theorists giving it to their friends in the field.
Asking out of ignorance. When the article says that > The Breakthrough Prizes are the largest prizes in science Do they mean the prize comes with more money?