Wednesday, March 11, 2009
'Quants'
One of the reasons why I wanted more dough in the stimulus package for science was to woo physicists and scientists away from Wall Street. Sort of how we paid Soviet scientists to get out of nuclear-weapons research after the Cold War.
Update -- Bert:
One of the reasons why I wanted more dough in the stimulus package for science was to woo physicists and scientists away from Wall Street. Sort of how we paid Soviet scientists to get out of nuclear-weapons research after the Cold War.
Update -- Bert:
Maybe we can woo these “Quants” into investing/budgeting for government. Do we have enough Bill James/quant types working for us? Heck, if it works in the private sector… Alas, the pay and pension benefits aren’t that good in the gov’mint.Not the government. Please no. They'd further screw it up. I'd rather hand 'em bang-for-the-buck grants for research conducted in their moms' basements.
