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I think reading 10-20 ancedotes is far more useful than an academic paper. After meeting my PhD professor. I stopped trusting academia for truth.
by throwayEngineer 7y ago
I think reading 10-20 ancedotes is far more useful than an academic paper.
After meeting my PhD professor. I stopped trusting academia for truth.
- tasubotadas 7y agoAcademia's disconnect with practical things is amazing.
- 1337biz 7y agoPerfect example of a field were the quantification of performance killed all good intentions.
- throwayEngineer 7y agoThe dishonesty to "prove" something was shocking. Now I skip the abstract and go straight to Data.
- ghaff 7y agoI spent some time digging through academic research last year for a chapter of a book I was writing. There was some interesting work both relating directly to software development and collaboration and other topics more broadly. There was also a lot of unreadable crap that was pretty disconnected from the real world.