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My NLP/ML PhD advisor always said: "If a more senior person tells you that something can be done, they are almost definitely correct. If they tell you that so
by bravura 4y ago
My NLP/ML PhD advisor always said:
"If a more senior person tells you that something can be done, they are almost definitely correct.
If they tell you that something cannot be done, they are probably wrong."
- Karellen 4y agoIf they didn't attribute that, they totally ripped off Arthur C. Clarke's first law: > When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future, 1962 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#Clarke's_Three_Laws,_et_al_(1962;_1973%E2%80%A6) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#Clarke's_Thre...
- 317070 4y agoMaybe that was the lesson to be learned all along? When a distinguished but elderly scientist is almost certainly right, he probably heard it somewhere else first.
- bravura 4y agoThank you for the citation. I don’t remember if the source was cited or if it was shared as received wisdom. Ps ripped off is quite harsh. Much of what I learned as a doctoral student was the biases absorbed and transmitted by my advisor, it was only specific academic contributions that he claimed as original.