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                                               July 14, 2009

         Freeman Dyson, from an Edge talk:

         "I am telling the next generation of young students,
         who will still be alive in the second half of our
         century, that misfortunes are on the way. Their
         precious Ph.D., or whichever degree they went
         through long years of hard work to acquire, may be
         worth less than they think. Their specialized
         training may become obsolete. They may find
         themselves over-qualified for the available
         jobs. They may be declared redundant.  The country
         and the culture to which they belong may move far
         away from the mainstream. But these misfortunes are
         also opportunities. It is always open to them to
         join the heretics and find another way to make a
         living. With or without a Ph.D., there are big and
         important problems for them to solve."




  If in these pages, despite my best
  efforts, I don't succeed very well          STALE
  as an original thinker, it could
  be that I should just focus on
  applications.

  I have energy, a willingness to
  dive-in and work on things without               ZERO
  apparent immediate rewards...

  Why not dig in and do some more
  detailed work, perhaps something           If Chomsky sometimes seems
  somewhere between journalism and           intellectually shallow, focused
  science?                                   on fact rather than meaning, it
                                             could be because he was simply
                                             aware that Betrand Russell had
                                             that covered.

                                                  What use, one
                                                  more philosopher?

                                                         FOR_THE_AGES


                 And I might draw an analogy to
                 art, where I often argue for
                 having confidence in the
                 uniqueness of your own spin...

                     DONE_BEFORE






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