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I think the GP is getting at the fact that, as a design, it is impressive enough to get media attention but not robust and comprehensive enough to be an actual

I think the GP is getting at the fact that, as a design, it is impressive enough to get media attention but not robust and comprehensive enough to be an actual real-world product. So much more industrial design would have to go into the concept in order for it to be available in the marketplace. It reminds me of those news stories that pop up from time to time about some high schooler inventing a robot to clean up plastic waste from the ocean. A neat concept, and laudable, but the design they've produced has a whole litany of flaws that they did not address because they don't have real world marine engineering experience - susceptibility to corrosion, bio-fouling, etc.

dekhn 5y ago
Yes. I've built actual solutions for problems. There are things that kids can do in the research realm that's "interesting", but product development is not one of those things. The focus is on finding a thing that "works" (IE, shows at least one true positive), but not a thing "that could be deployed to a million homes for a decade and show a TP rate of 99.9% and a FN rate of 0.01%". Getting a product to the market involves mostly things that don't involve the working of the device, but rather preventing the device from failing in the field. The other problem is that there are 10 other kids who are doing things better (learning to contribute in the long term) who don't get glowing articles written about them.