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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

by 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.