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by cspeterson 806 days ago
This might be minor, but an error seems to be made repeatedly in this article: the machine was not built at "Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies," but rather at "The Institute for Advanced Study" which is located in Princeton, NJ but completely independent from Princeton University.
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you’re right but I think the phrasing is fair. Princeton in the passage effectively refers to the location, not the university, and there are other places called “Institute for Advanced Studies” so you probably need to disambiguate