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[academia : toy boats in bathtubs :: industry : aircraft carriers] is the most memorable distinction between academia and industry I've heard. In the end, your
by chadaustin 16y ago
[academia : toy boats in bathtubs :: industry : aircraft carriers] is the most memorable distinction between academia and industry I've heard. In the end, your slice of the pie will be as big as you can handle, but the overall size of the pie (and thus your percentage of control) determines whether you choose academia or startups or established companies.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoAt the risk of looking stupid, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that [academia : industry :: toy boats in bathtubs : aircraft carriers] ? I would read this aloud as: "academia is to industry as toy boats in bathtubs is to aircraft carriers", which seems to make more sense to me as an analogy. So do I have it right, do I not understand analogies, or do I not understand the notation you're using?
- ehsanul 16y agoI read it as "if academia were toy boats, industry would be aircraft carriers." Edit - the blog post clears this up: The way I think of it, being in academia is a lot like building toy boats and playing with them in your bathtub. ... Whereas being at Google is like working on an aircraft carrier at sea.
- shadowfox 16y agoNow I can see why mathematics is so formal