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23 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 25 July 2013 02:58AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 28 July 2013 02:27:51AM *  2 points [-]

CFAR thinks pre-mortem is bad terminology because it encourages excessive pessimism. But yes. I'll edit the reference so it doesn't sound like CFAR invented this concept.