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Overall I thought the article was interesting!

I did find it funny that multiple times it cited the medical resident match making algorithm as a success. Anyone who has gone through this process knows how horrible of a system it is. You essentially open an envelop that tells your job and location for the next 3-6 years. Hospitals + government love the system because they can artificially reduce resident wages, applicants cannot negotiate job offers.

One of John Nash's most famous paper's is 1 page: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.36.1.48

Large systems is not a requirement for novelty.

- Government uses tax payer money to fund a bunch of research (internal and at universities)

- Some publisher paywalls the research

- Taxpayers pay publisher to unpaywall the research

Really dumb system. All research should be open, the CS field is doing this well. All sciences should follow.

The EU has donated about the same amount of money (46.3B) as the US (46.6B), however total aid the US has donated 114B while the EU has dontaed 49B.

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...

https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/

+1 on map reduce, thats a classic systems paper.

Surprised no one has mentioned The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. Data is more important than complex domain specific algorithms.