There is no crying in physics, where even the best of friends can call each other's work rubbish, and the most beloved theories are coolly thrown out when experiments contradict them.
I learned the basics of doing research, the importance of following my curiosity, and the necessity of letting beloved theories fall by the wayside if they aren't supported by reality.
From an engineering point of view, ALT was applied initially for electronic products, and the exponential distribution was used widely as "standard distribution" in the reliability analysis of electronic products; from a statistical point of view, the exponential distribution led to numerous simple and beautiful analytic conclusions, beloved by theory statisticians.
Strait, by contrast, is beloved both in theory and in practice.
According to the "efficient-markets" theory beloved of most financial economists, investors who take bigger risks should expect to be rewarded, on average, with higher returns.
The FX show beat out "Parks and Recreation" (Amy Poehler included), Lena Dunham and "Girls," and "Community's" beloved "Remedial Chaos Theory" for C.K.'s work on the episode, "Pregnant".
All this in the tale of two Nazi scientists trekking through Tibet on a search for the yeti as a way of proving racial theories beloved by Himmler.
The solution could lie in exploiting another idea beloved of economists, game theory, and tailoring it to the constraints imposed by natural selection.
He laughed, and offered the same response I had heard twice before: "Toda la isla es mi favorito!" The beloved island bewilders anthropologists; theories abound surrounding the first inhabitants, construction of the moai (ancestral tribute statues towering up to 33 feet tall, weighing up to 82 tons), and a civilization's demise.
