Lars Vilks' talk: all was OK
I didn't go to Vilks' talk, but I heard and read that nothing special happened. Vilks gave a 2-hour talk and it went smoothly. As it should. But 130 police were brought to the university, and it cost more than 700 thousand Swedish krona (more than 100 thousand US dollars).
Here is the article from the local newspaper.
T H E B O T T O M L I N E
What measure theory is about
It's about counting, but when things get too large.
Put otherwise, it's about addition of positive numbers, but when these numbers are far too many.
The principle of dynamic programming
max_{x,y} [f(x) + g(x,y)] = max_x [f(x) + max_y g(x,y)]
The bottom line
Nuestras horas son minutos cuando esperamos saber y siglos cuando sabemos lo que se puede aprender.(Our hours are minutes when we wait to learn and centuries when we know what is to be learnt.) --António Machado
Αγεωμέτρητος μηδείς εισίτω.
(Those who do not know geometry may not enter.) --Plato
Sapere Aude! Habe Muth, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen!
(Dare to know! Have courage to use your own reason!) --Kant
Well that's good -- but then the real crime is that a single cop seems to cost the Swedish government $384 per hour which seems "slightly" excessive. Also I think 130 was an over-reaction, that would have meant they expected hundreds or thousands of people trying to kill Vilks in which case they would have needed reinforcements anyway...
ReplyDeleteOh, you have no idea how expensive things are in Sweden. I don't think a cop gets paid $384 per hour. Most of the money goes back to the state--I think.
ReplyDeleteAn example: A beer in a bar costs, at least, 55 krona (= 8 US dollars).
Also, yes, they did expect large crowds and protests from a few fanatics. But nothing like that happened. Most of the people I know didn't care anyway, because, as I said, they don't think highly of his art, for the art's sake.