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[Frumple]

... almost makes me wonder if there's not room for some kind of p2p program that does what things like facebook do, just on an ad-hoc sort of level. Kinda' like an IRC room or whatev's, just maintaining them with something along the lines of what torrents do and with facebook-style functionality. Makes me wish I could code, ha. Might be an interesting experiment.

[Angle]

Ther've been a few different attempts to do such, but I don't think any of them have accomplished much.

[ChairmanPoo]

One open question to the people here: do you feel that, the closer that you get (professionally) to the "greats" in your daily work, the less "great" they seem?

[SalmonGod]

One open question to the people here: do you feel that, the closer that you get (professionally) to the "greats" in your daily work, the less "great" they seem?

Hmm... I've hung out in the same communiies with some world-class artists.  Received comments on my work from people I respect and had them respond when I commented on theirs.  I think the opposite has been true for me.  The closer I get, the more amazing their level of ability and talent seems to me.  I see how easily amazing work flows from their hands and know that I have a long way to go.

[Vector]

Me?  Definitely no.  A world-class mathematician is so high into the stratosphere that you can't tell the distance from you except in how he or she approaches the little things, you know, the stuff that's on your personal level.  Getting close to see the technique on the basics... ah, that's a marvel.

[alway]

... almost makes me wonder if there's not room for some kind of p2p program that does what things like facebook do, just on an ad-hoc sort of level. Kinda' like an IRC room or whatev's, just maintaining them with something along the lines of what torrents do and with facebook-style functionality. Makes me wish I could code, ha. Might be an interesting experiment.

You mean... an internet forum?

[Vector]

I hang out here to meet people, too, but frankly the selectivity of Facebook is very helpful in terms of combing down data.

[ChairmanPoo]

...you see, I'm kind of disappointed with my boss. I don't share the raw (and not wholly undeserved) hatred my mates have for him (..I get along reasonably well), and now that the initial conflict (which I won) has somewhat settled down, I can see that all things being said, he's a pretty good clinician. But damn, the flaws... oh man. Not going to go into that, as I already commented on the Resident Revolution elsewhere.

It saddens me, really. I was bordering hero-worship before this mess...

[Vector]

In terms of being total tools, the greats in my field are famous for being eccentric and a little nasty, so I can't say that was really a surprise or disappointment either.

[Vector]

"The Charitable-Industrial Complex".

Please read this fantastic article.  It is a treasure.

[MonkeyHead]

In terms of being total tools, the greats in my field are famous for being eccentric and a little nasty, so I can't say that was really a surprise or disappointment either.

Mot of the "great" living Physicists that I have met have been kind of dull TBH, and overly absorbed in thier work, but I suppose thats how have to be if you want to end up at the top of the tree in Physics. All of them save for Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell-Burnett. Meeting her was a total joy as she was a total nutter and a really nice person to boot. I have never met Hawking and probably never will no matter how hard I try, but his twitter feed is hilarious.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Can't, NY Times doesn't load for me anymore, with the exception of Nate Silver's blog. That site is evil.

[Frumple]

Have a pastebin dump of the article, then. Site's terrible for me, too, if I don't turn off plugins and javascript. Most news sites are, bleh.

[Ogdibus]

"The Charitable-Industrial Complex".

Please read this fantastic article.  It is a treasure.

I guess it wasn't just my imagination. :<

[Scoops Novel]

"The Charitable-Industrial Complex".

Please read this fantastic article.  It is a treasure.

Not that i have an enormous amount of experience/contact, but I'm a little doubtful of guilt-washing being a primary/common purpose amongst wealthy donors. I'll admit this does seem to be a reasonable inclination to how the winds blowing, though I'd like to examine the mysteriously secluded pivot under the cockerel. If i may ask, how did you hear about this?