<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ulf Wiger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ulf@feuerlabs.com" target="_blank">ulf@feuerlabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, but in my experience, this is how most research funding is determined as well: "We estimate that we will invent X in month 47 of the project, after which we will discover Y based on X in month 64, having spent N number of man-months in the process."</blockquote>
</div><br>Indeed.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Which is why researchers do the research first and put it in a drawer. Then go seek the funding for the research. Thus they hit a 100% success rate, which is impressive. And it makes it consistent so they will get more funding for more research.</div>
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