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It wasn't really primarily about the generals. It was mostly about the captains (who are YOUNG) and soliders. It was the movies, not the books, that made LOTR a powerful tool for D…

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>> At the very least, tax payers need to stop bailing out student loan debt while simultaneously funding multiple annual week-long conferences in Hawaii and Europe for professors w…

If this is true then the universities will win the grants anyways, so why not adopt my proposal? (It's not, especially for disciplines like CS and math.)

In CS this is just false. Nearly all of the CS research we fund could be done in inexpensive office space with no administrators. The one exception is DARPA-funded robotics researc…

1. He predicts "signs of life" by 2030, which is a (probably intentionally) vague statement. 2. He raised $20MM for an AI startup, which is fine and well but also makes him not ent…

There has been a real shift in the culture of academia over the last 10-15 years that coincides with what I'm starting to call "the rise of the Twitter Prof". The twitter thing is …

> Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed? For Computer Science: 1. replace the current academic funding model with pure fellowships. Each individual, from most junior to most se…

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I agree. There are two different sets: 1. Actual deep learning researchers, actively doing research. I rarely hear nonsense about impending AGI or mass technological unemployment f…

It's only your investments that are failing (assuming you are a US taxpayer). The servicers are paid to service; they don't own the instrument. You own the actual debt. Think of it…

I've spent a lot of time with working for or closely interfacing with a half dozen academic institutions. I left academia by choice -- with multiple TT offers in hand -- so this is…

> The "cream" rising to the top is often less genius and more politically savvy with the right connections on the PC. I'm generally nauseated when I interact with American CS acade…

As he should; tiling is highly skilled labor -- closer to applied art than construction, really -- and destroys your body.

Two confounding factors: 1. billed hours in the trades don't include travel to or from the worksite; if the plumber is 30 minutes from you and the job takes an hour, they're alread…

Universities that offer doctoral degrees and have "Very High Research Activity" according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Specifically, the 130 …

I don't buy the attention filter argument. No one -- and I really do mean no one -- is going to read the entire contents of the proceedings of even just one of these conferences. N…

1. There isn't as much of a difference here as you think. Contractors do turn around and use components developed in public contracts for other consulting projects. Most commonly w…

Most of what the big contractors like Booz do is custom software. Every single cloud provider has an entire GovCloud division. Even Office has special Government licensing that beh…

It's the other way around -- academic R&D is just about the only type of government spending for which there's wide-spread support for openness and a lack of entrenched power again…

Yes, and I've worked on browser-based games that are built on top of webhooks. But what percentage of people could forego webhooks entirely if they weren't doing any personalizatio…

User tracking and/or personalization tick 2-3 of your 4 boxes: UI - Logging mouse movement, keyboard events, and other types of attention proxies. Webhooks and/or Bottlenecks - cal…

Many of the message queues I have seen are only necessary because of personalization or analytics features that the user doesn't want and the business probably doesn't need. When I…