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> They're basically spamming the world with programming languages, libraries and products only to wind them down and start again Replace libraries, languages a
by marmaduke 7y ago
> They're basically spamming the world with programming languages, libraries and products only to wind them down and start again
Replace libraries, languages and products with statistics, hypotheses and figures and you have described scientific research.
The point is that each iteration learns from the last, in principle, even if they aren’t backwards or forwards compatible.
- TelmoMenezes 7y agoReplace statistics, hypotheses and figures with bread, donuts and cake and you have described a bakery. Hmmm cake... How can you not like cake?
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- marmaduke 7y agoI do like cake. But I think baked goods are somewhat solved problem.
- pjc50 7y ago> Replace libraries, languages and products with statistics, hypotheses and figures and you have described scientific research. Well, yes - and the inability to build on previous research code because people don't publish it results in a colossal waste of (usually) public money. Nonreproducibility in science, and Google's abandoning of products, are phenomena that resemble one another somewhat.