15FLAIM PART II: PUSHING THE ENVELOPE

What we do in college is to get over our little-mindedness. Education—to get it you have to hang around till you catch on.—Robert Lee Frost1

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It’s a well-understood principle that no matter how many books you read, or how many lectures you attend, or how many queries you present on mailing lists, you’ll still be left with unanswered questions. It’s estimated that half of the world’s population has access to the internet today.2 There are thousands of terabytes of information available from your desktop. Nevertheless, it seems every project has one or two issues that are just different enough from all others ...

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