The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
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Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#2The citation:
> For coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research
What was submitted for the award was apparently an article and a video published in December 2021:
The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-nasas-james-webb-space-te...
How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe https://www.quantamagazine.org/videos/james-webb-documentary...
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#3Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions.
The entire story:
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...
Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too:
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#4Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions. The entire story: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0... Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
There is a Numberphile interview with him that I remember being pretty interesting https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#5This is well earned. Congratulations!!
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#6Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions. The entire story: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0... Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
Echoing recent discussions on HN, from wikipedia:
"An article published in The New York Times in 2015 said that Simons was involved in one of the biggest tax battles of the year, with Renaissance Technologies being "under review by the I.R.S. over a loophole that saved their fund an estimated $6.8 billion in taxes over roughly a decade."[46] In September 2021, it was announced that Simons and his colleagues would pay billions of dollars in back taxes, interest and penalties to resolve the dispute, one of the biggest in IRS history"
(...)
"In total, Simons has given over $2.7 billion to philanthropic cause"
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#7Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions. The entire story: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0... Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
I am big fan of Jim Simon's work as well as Quanta, really interesting that both are connected.
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#8Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions. The entire story: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0... Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
Echoing recent discussions on HN, from wikipedia: "An article published in The New York Times in 2015 said that Simons was involved in one of the biggest tax battles of the year, with Renaissance Technologies being "under review by the I.R.S. over a loophole that saved their fund an estimated $6.8 billion in taxes over roughly a decade."[46] In September 2021, it was announced that Simons and his colleagues would pay…
Even with accounting for that change RenTec’s returns don’t change all too much.
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#9Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions. The entire story: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0... Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
His foundation, the Simons Foundation, funds among a few other things, arXiv. I have wondered why other tech related billionaires do not sponsor more items in the scientific sphere like Simons does, because unlike funding a building at some rich university your money could actually be used for something useful and if something good comes out of it, having your name attached to it could mean a lot more than the name of some silly building (on top of the actual scientific progress it leads to).
Re: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
#10And it's free! I'm very grateful for Quanta. It filled a gap in my life after my old favorite for decades, Scientific American, went off the rails and is now unreadable.