You're right. Treason is constitutionally punishable by death, after all. We could avoid that problem rather easily.

Greek Nationalist, eh?

I don't understand. You seem to be anti-socialist, yet without the Poles and the Turks, would anyone do any work at all in Greece? I'm just wondering.

Well, at least this student did. God only knows what kind of unholy messes the others made. Or, for that matter, how much cost accrued silently through inefficiencies over 25 years.

Marathon.

yeah, but what does Andreessen care about the fall guy chumps who actually end up running the code he's chipping it to have written? they're as expendable as any other piece of hardware. it's even in the name Dread Pirate Roberts, except instead of retiring they end up dead or in jail.

the arXiv paper presenting the results was authored by five people all with Chinese names. at least one of them is fresh from Beijing; i didn't bother tracking down the rest.

i'm sure a lot of research goes on there, by all sorts of people. Andrew Ng seems like a good guy. none of this is directly relevant to the submissions. (though neither is any of this that important, really.)

it's not called cheating there. the ideograms translate roughly to "auspicious cooperation with jade dragon of opportunity."

yes, they are complete opposites.

for one, crony capitalism actually exists.

You post like a pregnant yak!!!

perhaps correctly, but also vacuously. your "counter-example" only applies if the connection is perfect, which is not implied by a correlation.

Uh, you are "some millennial with a [communications] degree".

It used to annoy me that the Chinese applicants to my program had a separate admissions group comprising exclusively Chinese professors.

It still annoys me, but I realized that it's necessary since every single one has perfect test scores (including the TOEFL as you point out, which is just hirarious), glowing carbon-copy letters of recommendation, and a near-identical statement of interest. There's very little information to make a decision on a formal level, so you need to make best guesses based on province and other culture-specific cues.

And apparently you don't understand what "correlate" means, either.

this is an old tactic.

a long time ago, i picked up a random book in the library about the Aktion T4 program and read it while i should have been writing my thesis. it was interesting enough, until the last two chapters which ranted about how, obviously, pro-choicers were pushing America down the same path. it was annoying, but a nice reminder; i had to fact-check everything i read. i did, and the facts about T4 checked out, which suggests that they just took some legitimate research and bolted their drivel to it.

not much i didn't already know. care to elaborate a bit?