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The hard part is surviving the 20 year drought of research funding in the meantime. Most researchers want to hang onto an idea and develop it until it changes
by olympus 9y ago
The hard part is surviving the 20 year drought of research funding in the meantime. Most researchers want to hang onto an idea and develop it until it changes the world but they need to keep their job, so they follow the funding and that means following the fads.
- jamesblonde 9y agoSo true. I did part of my PhD on reinforcement learning, finished in 2004. I couldn't get money for continuing work on the topic (wasn't cool), so ended up getting into P2P and Big Data. Still do a bit of ML, but it's not core anymore.