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timr
4 months ago
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Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands...
It's not comparing him to anyone. He has an endowed professorship. This is standard in academia, and you give the name because a) it's prestigious for the recipient and b) it strokes the ego of the donor.
leoc
4 months ago
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Right: no-one cares about the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasian_Professor_of_Mathemat...
because of Henry Lucas, it's the other way around.
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