What is it with the Japanese and dropping people on their heads ? <| sep |> hell it could be fucking venezuela if it werent for the obvious clues <| sep |> I nominate Mr . E ! <| sep |> What ? That means you went from say 50 , 000 to under 30 , 000 . Never seen it and I have been playing a long time . level 35 <| sep |> But what do you want the money for . Certain grants are only able to support certain things equipment , infrastructure , staffing , students etc so until you know exactly what you ' re going to be using the money for it ' s impossible to target which grant you should actually be applying for . Well , as an algorithm guy the only thing I need actually is my salary and maybe some 8 k , if possible , for computers , publications and conference . But they ' re not even fundamental . we have some spare change for that . For some reasons I ' m aware of at least 4 different ways to ask for funds to get PhD students , including the MSCRA we ' re participating in , but none to get funds for me ! It ' s clear what you say about ERC , but I ' m pretty confident that I could make a proposal that wouldn ' t be that low ranking even if probably not enough to win . We ' re pretty strong on this topic here . But anyway you ' re right . As soon as I finish with the current grant writing for Others craze , I ' d go talking with our grant scouting office