Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

By Zuckerberg. The selection seems decent. And natural sciences only, which is good. A bit more application oriented than the Nobel Prize it seems, e.g. 2022 separates physics and fundamental physics.

Appears to explain award reasoning even worse than the Nobel Foundation.

The Royal Society's Nobel Prize.

royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/copley-medal/ says it is now open to international citizens, but having a quick look at the 2010 awards still suggests that it is very British centric, or at least anglophone centric, much like the society fellowship itself. That's likely the reason why the Nobel prize won, being much more international from the start.

Good background: www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/oct/07/prize-science-medal-history-nobel

Nobel Prize of Mathematics.

The Nobel Prize of mathematics!

That 15,000 canadian dollar prize though, what a joke! That's what you get when an impoverished scientist, and not a rich industrialist, creates a prize!

The Nobel Prize of computer software or hardware!

More like a "lifetime achievement" though, rather than the Nobel Prize, which tends to be for more specific achievements.

E.g. International Mathematical Olympiad, International Physics Olympiad, competitive programming, etc.

Knowledge olympiads are stupid.

The most triggering thing possible is when programming competitions don't release their benchmarks as open source software afterwards: at least like that they might help someone to solve their real world problems. Maybe.

Some irrelevant people highlight that knowledge Olympiads can have good effects, because they are "an opportunity to meet university teachers and their research organizations". Ciro's argument is just that there are much more efficient ways to achieve those goals.

As an alternative way to get into university, this is not 100% horrible however, e.g. the University of São Paulo accepted students from olympiads in 2019 and then again 2023: jornal.usp.br/institucional/usp-oferece-200-vagas-em-mais-de-100-cursos-de-graduacao-para-alunos-participantes-de-olimpiadas-do-conhecimento/?a

Resources to study for knowledge olympiads: