Lu Liu

"But the math culture they find in America, while less back-stabbing than that of the Soviet math establishment, is far from the meritocratic ideal that Russia's unofficial math world had taught them to expect. American math culture has intellectual rigor but also suffers from allegations of favoritism, small-time competitiveness, occasional plagiarism scandals, as well as the usual tenure battles, funding pressures and administrative chores that characterize American academic life. This culture offers the kinds of opportunities for professional communication that a Soviet mathematician could hardly have dreamed of, but it doesn't foster the sort of luxurious, timeless creative work that was typical of the Soviet math counterculture." - Lu Liu from Bookmarklet

'You don't have to believe me. Listen to what Chinese officials are saying. The best line in recent days came from Lou Jiwei, chairman of the sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corp., talking about why he expects to have a good year: "Both China and America are addressing bubbles by creating more bubbles and we're just taking advantage of that. So we can't lose."' - Lu Liu from Bookmarklet

"For the past 30 years, financial innovation has increased costs and risks for both individual consumers and the global economy. To take the most obvious example, consumers bought houses they could not otherwise have bought using new mortgages they had no hope of repaying, creating a housing bubble, while new derivatives helped hide the risk of those mortgages, creating a securities bubble." - Lu Liu from Bookmarklet

Sounds so familiar ... "There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over... I have at times found myself slipping into this pattern, continually patching the same code over and over." - Lu Liu from Bookmarklet

Mindblowing when combined with http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog... - Kartik Agaram

Instead of focusing on short term trends and going after the opportunity of owning how companies recruit on social networks we went for an audience focused approach with a longer term horizon. In hindsight this was a mistake. Going after short term trends would have given us the momentum we needed. For any startup, losing that trajectory is only recipe for loss of morale and momentum for the team. Three new product launches in 9 months didn't give us much to build on. - Lu Liu from Bookmarklet

LOL - Lu Liu from Bookmarklet

To Blue Dog (alternative phrase for To Benedict Arnold) linebacker crosses own goal line and spikes own helmet. Shows that player forgot which team he is on. - Lu Liu

more blue dogs at http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Lu Liu

The legal basis for rescission is that when you sign an insurance application, you are warranting that the information on the application is true; if it turns out not to be true, the insurer can get out of your insurance contract. It’s particularly nasty in practice because the insurer does not immediately investigate your application to determine if it is accurate before selling you the policy (that would be impractically expensive); instead, the insurer waits – years, in many cases – until you actually need expensive health care, and then does the investigation, which at that point is worth it because of the payments the insurer could potentially avoid. - Lu Liu from Bookmarklet

Also, you can lose your coverage for innocent mistakes, which are easy to make since the application form asks you if you have ever seen a doctor for any one of a long list of medical conditions that you are certain not to recognize or understand. (In a Congressional hearing, the CEO of a health insurer admitted that he did not know what several of the conditions listed on his company’s application were.) - Lu Liu

"So just what do we need to teach our students if they are to have the right viewpoint and skills to construct the complex reliable software systems of tomorrow, and to maintain, extend, and fix the systems in use today? In my experience, undergraduate computer science curricula simply do not regard complex software construction as a central skill to be taught. Introductory courses are dumbed down in an effort to make them fun and attractive, and have sacrificed rigor in designing and testing complex algorithms in favor of fiddling around with fun stuff such as fancy graphics. Most of these courses at this stage are using Java as a first language, and all too often Java is the only language that computer science graduates know well." - Lu Liu

A related article by one of the authors at http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTa... - Lu Liu

I think there's a world of difference between "Computer Science" (which I see something as "math for the computing age") and "Software Engineering". Indeed, it may be so that the availability of strong Software Engineering education is lacking. - Meryn Stol

amazing stuff! - Lu Liu