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Clarification: This thread is referring to work funded by the Federal Government (not done by Federal Government). And I would agree with @sitkak - that perhaps that BD act needs to be cut down - for starters. But we do need more to fix Universities.

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Thanks for sharing this. I think it is a very good summary from a PhD student perspective. Now let me give you some more information :)

Academia wants to do research - and not pay minimum wage (not even to Tenured Full Professors - ask them how much they make from their grant during the months they are paid). Professors have figured out how to screw PhD students, and their own peers, thanks to competition.

If you look at any PhD student in a stream/major that has a value proposition, chances are - the student is imported. And in these streams (which matter?), research is value-less. Because there is no incentive to do any valuable work. Unfortunately, universities get lucky still - once in a while. Thankfully, this is beginning to end. Perhaps someone can quantitatively study this.

Interesting times - But first - in the US - health care needs a reboot ;-)

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Your university commercialization office will disagree. Check with them. From what I understand, it is illegal to release your code in CC0 or MIT unless you have taken permission from the commercialization office (Some universities allow GPL without explicit permission). Have you checked your contract ? Your work is not yours if it has any value. The value belongs to the university (mostly) - which also means you have no incentive to work on valuable stuff.

I think Elsevier is least of UCs problems. It's a distraction from the real ones.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rony_Abovitz

Why was a biomedical engineering guy (with absolutely no background in AR/VR/graphics/CS/...) being given a billion dollar to do something that is not up his ally at all?

What are we missing here? Which Team? I never understood this story.

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> The answer to why it makes sense in that case, is that there are so few other viable alternatives to deal with swarms of drones (none currently).

There are - if the AF was functional. Any viable alternative has to have the same form - low price, and distributed - from none of the Military contractors.

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@dyrosla FOMO: Thank you for the explanation. I am trying to understand. The lottery ticket on the back of engineers and workers. Any thoughts on how long is this game going to last? Now China is playing the same game, but with relaxed rules - to speed things up on FOMO? Do I understand this correct?

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Whatever they promised - The Google's and VCs of the world put in money into them. What does that tell us about investors in this country?

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One bullet from one drone, and the thing is a puff. It's more expensive to build than a drone? Why does this make sense?

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Inverting compass readings into position is highly problematic because of interference, and noise.

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Yes, they do. The only time it works is when you have a clear view, which is not always.

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Summary: You an mix the coordinates obtained from celestial navigation (stars) with signals of opportunity (Electromagnetic sources like FM) to find the position without GPS.

Problems: Anytime a military advertisement happens (LN-120G Stellar-Inertial-GPS from Northup G.) - if you don't see the total price of the unit, know that it was a waste of money and resources.

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