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"the total amount of source code as well as the total number of open source projects is growing at an exponential rate.... Our work shows that open source is expanding into new domains and applications at an exponential rate."

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"ant is a typesetting system inspired by TeX. All major features of TeX are implemented"

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"LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language. The LuaTeX projects main objective is to provide an open and configurable variant of TeX while at the same time offering downward compatibility."

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"we have no need for dynamic higher-order programming. All we need is static higher-order programming. In fact, "static higher-order programming" has another name.... In Lisp and its many relatives, "static higher-order programs" are called macros."

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"The Impact Project identifies and documents research contributions that have had substantial impact, determines the research modalities that have been successful [and] identifies technology transition approaches that have worked best"

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"Impact studies ... [tell] us that it's terribly hard to know where ideas came from, once you have them.... So perhaps there isn't a better way than to generate lots of solutions, throw them around the place and see what few of them stick to a problem"

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"Rankings are based on the following question: Which blogs should one read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere?"

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More homework means worse performance: “the overall correlations between national average student achievement and national averages in [amount of homework assigned] are all negative.”

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"One problem with common sense, however, is that we invoke it after we know the facts. Events are far more "obvious" and predictable in hindsight than beforehand"

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"four requirements of a good lecture [...]: a. Every lecture should make only one main point; b. Never run overtime; c. Relate to your audience; d. Give them something to take home"

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"The entire referee system is a non-working anachronism from the Victorian Age of Noble Rich Dilettante Do-Gooders. [...] As science became bigger and became an enterprise of numerous professionals rather than few amateurs, this system became incapable of

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"In the worldwide suckers' market, gamblers are the only people who are slower to learn than young adults with masters' degrees. Bright graduate students possess a pair of non-marketable skills: the ability to write term papers and the ability to take aca

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Do not believe there is no worthwhile life outside academia! [...] It is more than possible to find enjoyable, ethically-sound, world-improving work outside academia - in fact it's probably no harder than it is to find similar work inside the Academy

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"It should be possible, these days, to collect all knowledge you need from the internet. [...] I know exactly what should be taught to the beginning student. The names and topics of the absolutely necessary lecture courses are easy to list, and this is wh

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Very detailed advice for people considering applying for a PhD

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