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Since the prize is awarded with the same criteria and by the very same Swedish Academy of Science, and is fully endorsed by the Nobel organization, a closer analogy would be Mercedes building cars not from the original factory, but from a new one funded by outside capital, with the same specs and with Mercedes branding.

The calends [0] are the first day of every month in the Roman calendar. As the Ancient Greek calendar does not feature calends, postponing something to the Greek calends means postponing something to a later, unknown and unlikely to happen date.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calends

There's a much broader project that can compute most taxes and benefits for France (and a few other countries) : https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france

It would be quite interesting to check that both the French IRS implementation of the tax & benefit laws and the free software community (though most devs of the project were employed by the French admnistration) implementation of the tax and benefit laws actually output the same results.

This is unrelated to the actual link, but I am always surprised by the English language tendency to - for the lack of a better word - smash names together.

Yann LeCun is called Yann Le Cun [0] in French, but "Le" and "Cun" are smashed together in English. Lafayette [2] is of course called La Fayette [3]. Du Pont becomes DuPont, and so on.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Le_Cun

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_...

[3] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier_de_La_Fayett...