seanr88

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by seanr88 3y ago
I'm not sure you are disagreeing with me. I'm just stating a situation I've observed first hand both in the academic world and in the business world.
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by seanr88 3y ago
there is more to the analogy too. Once you have convinced a large player that your offering is important and have raised money successfully, everything gets a lot easier. Have a big grant and work at a top University attracting more money i
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by seanr88 3y ago
but the people you have to convince are the people who are doling out tax payer money for research. By definition they don't know your fabulous discovery only you know that. So you need to convince someone else that the idea you have i
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by seanr88 3y ago
In many professions including the business of startups and academia you need to be at least as good at selling something as you are at developing/discovering it.
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by seanr88 3y ago
Even the concept that the flow of traffic is more important than the pedestrian's flow is indicative of the change in attitude. Somehow the car has come to be most important while the pedestrian is a nuisance. Both own and pay for the
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by seanr88 3y ago
No other country has anything to teach the USA. The USA is unique and special for a large number of reasons and so foreign methods won't work here. If I recall they even drive on the other side of the road in the UK, that will never ca
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by seanr88 3y ago
I would disagree. All of what we are seeing from this latest surge in AI is essentially jumped up predictive text. To get to C-3P0 there is a whole additional layer of Intelligence needed. C-3P0 can make plans and execute those plans. This
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by seanr88 3y ago
I'd agree with this although I understand where the idea comes from. It is difficult for people to understand what is and is not a science and it is easy to think that computer science is not a science even when you study it. The way w
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by seanr88 3y ago
I'm having a very similar issue getting https://brisktest.com/ out there. People complain about things like the speed of their build system, but convincing people that your CI system is faster just seems like an uphill