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Interesting point, thank you. This is why I shared the video last night of how we are starting to open source research created by our tax dollars, but _not_ th

Interesting point, thank you. This is why I shared the video last night of how we are starting to open source research created by our tax dollars, but _not_ the software [1]. Do you have any ideas on what a modern “cross-disciplinary invention factory” would look like? 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21297448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21297448

petra 7y ago
I agree, sharing code is better for the research community. But once you share everything, you sort-of lost your edge. And since we live in a very competitive society, that's a big problem. Not just for academia, btw. As for ideas: I think AI and code offer us new ways of capturing expertise(search engines already do so to some extent) - and that may mean everybody could build a cross-disciplinary team "on the cheap". But even with that, inventing important things still feels like it would require a lot of work and experimentation and tools - so it would be an expensive business.
- davidjnelson 7y ago
  > I agree, sharing code is better for the research community. But once you share everything, you sort-of lost your edge. And since we live in a very competitive society, that's a big problem. Not just for academia, btw. Interesting. As a taxpayer, I’d like to see legislation passed to mandate open sourcing code I’ve paid for. I have compassion for researchers careers though, but am not well versed anywhere near enough in the machinations of that to suggest a solution. > But even with that, inventing important things still feels like it would require a lot of work and experimentation and tools - so it would be an expensive business. This feels a bit like capitalism as practiced today. Not judging it. Just curious if there are new approaches to be discovered and applied here.

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Interesting point, thank you. This is why I shared the video last night of how we are starting to open source research created by our tax dollars, but _not_ th

by davidjnelson 7y ago

petra 7y ago
I agree, sharing code is better for the research community. But once you share everything, you sort-of lost your edge. And since we live in a very competitive society, that's a big problem. Not just for academia, btw. As for ideas: I think AI and code offer us new ways of capturing expertise(search engines already do so to some extent) - and that may mean everybody could build a cross-disciplinary team "on the cheap". But even with that, inventing important things still feels like it would require a lot of work and experimentation and tools - so it would be an expensive business.
- davidjnelson 7y ago
  > I agree, sharing code is better for the research community. But once you share everything, you sort-of lost your edge. And since we live in a very competitive society, that's a big problem. Not just for academia, btw. Interesting. As a taxpayer, I’d like to see legislation passed to mandate open sourcing code I’ve paid for. I have compassion for researchers careers though, but am not well versed anywhere near enough in the machinations of that to suggest a solution. > But even with that, inventing important things still feels like it would require a lot of work and experimentation and tools - so it would be an expensive business. This feels a bit like capitalism as practiced today. Not judging it. Just curious if there are new approaches to be discovered and applied here.