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"in particular, it lacks the elegance necessary to lend credence that this was ever a research project" How does one judge this subjectively?
by brown9-2 15y ago
"in particular, it lacks the elegance necessary to lend credence that this was ever a research project"
How does one judge this subjectively?
- rprospero 15y agoAs a researcher, I was surprised that the author assumed that any of my work was ever elegant. Research projects are ugly and messy because you know that they'll never need to scale. If you can actually make it work, that's when you start on elegance.
- brown9-2 15y agoThis is exactly what I had always assumed, but felt like I couldn't rely on much of conventional wisdom in an argument like this.