Hubble multicycle large proposals were due today...
Julianne tests the conjecture of proposal number invariance under simple scaling.
Looks to be annoyingly close to correct with about 40 proposals in by the deadline.
I still think we need to check the proposal success probability as a function of proposal rank number.
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Earlier this month, the long-awaited, three-year delayed OSHA silica proposal was published. It's a proposed regulation designed to protect workers employed
What is a fair non-science criterion for changing proposal funding priorities?
Despite a short 30-day comment period, dozens of interested individuals and organizations provided comments to Asst. Secretary Leon Sequeira about his proposed so-called risk assessment policy. I've pulled some of my favorite excerpts for your consideration:
Okay, enough conjecture. I have at least partly settled the issue of proposal success as a function of proposal numbering the old-fashioned way, by measuring it, using data from Spitzer proposals. See http://mingus.as.arizona.edu/~bjw/propnumber/
If I don't get an AAS Special Prize for Procrastination for this, it just shows the system is unfair.