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Now it will remain to be see when and if it will ever come to market. This is great news but these articles pop up all the time, only for the tech never to make
by Overtonwindow 10y ago
Now it will remain to be see when and if it will ever come to market. This is great news but these articles pop up all the time, only for the tech never to make it to market. It's hard, I know, but maybe one day we will see success.
- Semiapies 10y agoYup. Between irreproducibility and these hype pieces leaving out any downsides that might keep the discovery/invention from succeeding practically, the punchline of the title is "...would be nice." It's a quixotic idea, but I'd like a project that tracked papers cited as big advances and looked for whether anything ever came of them five and ten years later.
- nickff 10y agoWhile I agree that holding people accountable for predictions has value, I think the problem is that columnists and academics do not understand the difficulties of mass production. Perhaps asking the columnist or academic to place a cash bet on their technology (against all comers at odds specified by the predictor) would be a check.