The time in Israel right now is 11:37pm but it's 11:59pm for the world.

La Régalade, ad litteram
laregalade.paris

Edvard Grieg à quatre-mains, avec mon cher Víkingur Ólafsson w.lnk.to/4hands

🏆 Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the IAS School of Mathematics, has been named by Association for Computing Machinery as the recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.' Read more: ias.edu/news/avi-wigde…

Great choice!

Nu de 'restructurare', ci de *desființare și renaștere* a Academiei Române e nevoie. hotnews.ro/stiri-esential…
Până atunci, toți cei ce-i îngroașă rândurile (și cei ce-i aduc, naiv sau interesat, elogii) rămân complici la perpetuarea unei entități falimentare—științific și moral...

Some trial & error notwithstanding, Normandy has great potential to satisfy the 𝑔𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒 in you (for half the budget that'd require in, say, Paris).
Two (more) cozy restaurants in the area, recently enjoyed:
- Auberge des Ruines—in Jumièges;
- L'Espiguette—in Rouen.

Journée 'La Passion selon Saint Jean de Bach' 🎵
Le tricentenaire de la Passion selon Saint-Jean BWV 245, à l’écoute de versions historiques (Ramin, Münchinger, Max, Harnoncourt…), d’archives de l’INA et des enregistrements les plus récents.
l.francemusique.fr/mUf

The *least* one can/ should do, indeed.

Shadow prices.

'[F]iind vorba de PNL, un partid condus de Ciucă & Bode, plagiatul pare mai degrabă o condiție de promovare, nicidecum o piedică în calea succesului.' catavencii.ro/omerta-pnl-din…
Imoral, ilicit, dar nu ilogic: tezele originale ale 'doctorilor' PNL sunt calitativ sub cele plagiate.🤣

That was fun — and not only for my 6yo.😉

(Parc accrobranche sur l'Île Lacroix, à Rouen)

Join us in welcoming Klaus Mäkelä as the 11th music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Learn more: cso.org/klausmakela youtu.be/XgQJFH9d5eQ?si…

Super excited about this new paper with Andrew Komo and Tim Roughgarden:

We give a theory of 'shill-proof' auctions, asking when an auction's design can disincentivize shill bidding.

The Dutch auction turns out to be particularly distinguished, and that's not all... 👇👀…

A fairly successful Easter egg—and other treasures—hunt, somewhere in deep Normandy.

🇫🇷 N’en déplaise à ceux qui ne voulaient pas de moi… 135 ans plus tard, je suis bel et bien le symbole de la France à travers le monde !

🌐 No offense to those who didn't want me... 135 years later, I am indeed the symbol of France throughout the world (with perhaps the 🥐🥖)

C’est vrai!

(normandie-impressionniste.fr/fr/programme/e…)