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| Jan 8, 2022 at 5:25 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
a minor typo
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| Nov 4, 2012 at 11:00 | comment | added | Ronnie Brown | @Yemon: It is told of Pontrjagin that his students gradually realised he had already solved the suggested problem , and this was very offputting. The image of "line manager" is false. A supervisor can suggest a good area in which the student might make some progress, and also to show by example how to cope with failure. "In research, the secret of success is the successful management of failure!" Also, one key question is after failure:"Why did I think this might be a good idea?" Others are: "What are the fall back positions? What are the fall forward positions?" How to manage risk? | |
| Dec 18, 2011 at 20:04 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | At the risk of taking too literally something meant in jest -- it strikes me as a vision of shoddy supervision. That's like saying every incompetent line manager deserves credit for inspiring those under them to ignore, or compensate for, their own failings | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 10:36 | history | answered | Ronnie Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |