This extends MIT's initiative in distance learning, and allows us to reach far beyond the brick and mortar of our Cambridge campus.

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It's a lottery thing, ... In my field of operations research, it's called an action-timing problem: Dynamically over time you are offered opportunities to make decisions and once you say 'yes,' you cannot go back.

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Well, I'm amazed that there is no fish in the river.

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[If at first you fail to find a bargain, call, call again.] They revise the fare structures every night, ... It's amazing the amount of fare recalculations they do.

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