Good post. I'm disappointed by how many researchers don't read papers older than 10 years or so. Too many people seem to think that more recent research superce

Good post. I'm disappointed by how many researchers don't read papers older than 10 years or so. Too many people seem to think that more recent research supercedes previous research in every way, which is not true. This often leads to researchers reinventing the wheel. Good ideas can fall out of favor essentially randomly for indeterminate amounts of time, so there should be no expectation that what is cited today is necessarily the best. To use another example I've seen a few times, an approach that might have seemed like a dead end in the 50s could now be tractable due to other developments, like modern computers.