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by brg 16y ago
All of naish's points are excellent. I would emphasize that you need to prepare for rejection. Start on secondary proposals and thinking about other lines of funding before you even submit your first.
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by brg 16y ago
Reminds me of the Heinlein book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress." But there was a recent story on here that a single reasonably sized asteroid would net about $1 Trillion worth of materials. It seems like a very profitable exercise.
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by brg 16y ago
I think a much more profitable goal would be to begin identifying and harvesting of valuable asteroids in our solar system.
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by brg 16y ago
Oversight is a nice word, but rarely beneficial when formalized as an ongoing process. To see this, do you believe that the loss of an entire platform, death of 11 workers, and possible loss of all mineral rights in US territory wasn't eno
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by brg 16y ago
Prefacing an article with "this is a philosophical discussion" is not an excuse to stumble through nonsense like a drunken sailor staggering home. Similarly if I preface this post with "I don't mean to be rude" only to continue to slander
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by brg 16y ago
All of STL.
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A Counterexample to the Hirsch Conjecture [Preprint](arxiv.org)
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Bing's relevance and ranking engine is supposedly based upon neural nets.
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by brg 16y ago
That poor countries can not help themselves, and that they need to cede authority to western civilization.
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by brg 16y ago
I looked into moving to Pittsburgh, and then I found out there was a city income tax and changed my plans.
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by brg 16y ago
Why would anyone who loves what they do stop trying to be more productive? When I say more productive I mean I want to read more, have more conversations, identify and solve more problems, write more papers. Taking a day to 'relax overall
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by brg 16y ago
To sum up the derivation for those looking for crib notes; model the problem as choosing k items u.a.r. from [1..N]. Compute P(max = i), and from this compute the expectation of the max. After simpliciation this is given in terms of k and
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by brg 16y ago
Is there a simple derivation or justification for this estimator?
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by brg 16y ago
My family has had no problems in the US, but we constantly hear about how hard it is from first generation children looking for an excuse to as why they haven't succeeded as much as their immigrant parents. But the truth is that too many fi
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by brg 16y ago
He has intentionally chosen to prioritize free time and freedom over cash-flow. My read is completely opposite, he is sacrificing free time and freedom in order to obtain cash-flow. Specifically he is constraining himself to living withi
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by brg 16y ago
I found structural discussions took place in the free form areas of mondrian, and knit-picking was a direct result of two aspects: 1) An strict, but oft changed style guideline 2) The requirement to say something beyond LGTM to prove that
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by brg 16y ago
Actuarial science should be advertised with a disclaimer to this affect. I have known people who go through large programs to find out their city of 3+ million has only one actuarial position open a year.
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by brg 16y ago
This was done by two company vips in direct opposition to the very vocal recommendation of the security team.
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by brg 16y ago
Maybe it differs by location, but it is not true that everyone codes. Within engineering, about 1/3 of tech leads do not code beyond mocks, and no one in engineering management codes. Staff and above also have diminishing coding activity;
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by brg 16y ago
Exactly. Why was Feynman on the Roger's commission? QED has little to do with rocket science.
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by brg 16y ago
Lieing has a built in forcing function which serves to motivate a liar to hone their skill. As the article mentions, one lies to make the world easier; to avoid harm or receive undeserved reward. But if one is caught in a lie, there harsh
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by brg 16y ago
At that time the subscription fees did not cover the cost of the hardware. Subscription fees were also falling due to decreasing barriers of entry into dialup and internet providers. Alternatives such as advertising did not cover the cost
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by brg 16y ago
Perhaps originally I should have said pharmacologist, but even in retrospect your term of a specialized chemist seems more correct.
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by brg 16y ago
As much as you may be against software patents, there can be no current patent restriction on the production of coral-snake antivenom if it was approved in 1967. The problem described in the article is simply that so few bites occur, the ef
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by brg 16y ago
I'm looking forward to reading this, but I had a similar experience reading Makers. The second and third acts felt too contrived, and I really struggled to finish it. The said, the first third is wonderful, and the short story Print Crime
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by brg 16y ago
You are not making any sense, and seem to be too defensive. Where was "decent" healthcare system 40 years ago? Where was job security during the dust-bowl, depression, the beginnings of the industrial revolution?
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by brg 16y ago
When parents are almost entirely removed from the education process, without input into curriculum[1] or teacher selection[2], can you blame many for becoming disinterested bystandards? In private religious and secular schools, I have notic
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by brg 16y ago
As to the debate about the aesthetics of video games, I am finding it interesting that there are so many people compelled to attempt to exclude video games when it would be simpler to ignore the question. But for the current generation, th
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by brg 16y ago
You may be correct, the lack of conjunction and my reading left to right, top to bottom conspired to introduce ambiguity in my interpretation.
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by brg 16y ago
Edit: It's worth noting that a $1000 mortgage is a shitload better than $1000 in rent. Not necessarily, as there is a marginal utility involved with owning a home versus renting that this statement does not account for. For instance in a

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