siege_engineer

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   by siege_engineer 6y ago

   Appreciate the correction about indirect cost math - I’ve applied for several grants but never did lab accounting so I interpreted it incorrectly when professors told me “50% overhead.” I’ll fix that when I’m at a computer. I would characte
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   by siege_engineer 6y ago

   Author here. I actually wrote a discussion of the Endless Frontier Act: https://benjaminreinhardt.com/the-endless-frontier-act/ I agree that the ARPA model is not suitable for all (or even the majority of research) and
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   by siege_engineer 6y ago

   Author here. Good point about DARPA serving a political-economic role. It's a different lens on the coordination role. Is the corporate-political landscape becoming more trust-based than the Military-Industrial Complex that Eisenhower
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   by siege_engineer 6y ago

   Author here. It's an important question. I would argue that DARPA does not work as well as it did in the 1960's but that your experience with PMs isn't representative. Even though it's less than other government orgs, DA
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   by siege_engineer 12y ago

   Proxy question: Do you want to be a professor? If "yes!" go for a PhD. If there's any uncertainty, don't. I wish someone had told me that before I started.