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I think it is a wild misunderstanding of how academic research works to say that the first demonstration of a concept is equal to all further work on a concept.
by geofft 7y ago
I think it is a wild misunderstanding of how academic research works to say that the first demonstration of a concept is equal to all further work on a concept. It is like saying that the Human Genome Project isn't recent work because the structure of DNA was discovered in 1953.
- madmax96 7y ago"arithmetic has existed for quite a while...what's the novelty Of Mr. Newton's integral? Mathematics research is irrelevant."
- __jal 7y agoThis is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff". If that line of thought were consistent, it would credit Babbage, or maybe Turing, as the last computer scientist to do something useful.
- sdenton4 7y agoAnd machine learning is still stuck in the sixties...
- mateo411 7y agoIt's stuck in the 1760s with the publication of Bayes Theorem.
- jascii 7y agoI would say there is a difference between development that significantly change the way we look at things and adapting known principals to changing demands.. Where exactly that boundary lays is, I admit, murky at best.