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1.5 More established academics deride, scoff, and do their best to extinguish this new work.
by readthenotes1 4y ago
1.5 More established academics deride, scoff, and do their best to extinguish this new work.
- Yoric 4y agoI'm sure that this happens. When I was an academic, I never encountered (or heard of) such situations, though.
- hinkley 4y ago4.5 some of the less arrogant academics internalize the complaints about their solutions and iterate on it to make it 20% easier to use and/or 20% better in practice, making the cost of change more attractive.
- Yoric 4y agoAcademics have different goals, metrics and incentives than industry, but I would seldom call academic work "arrogant". In particular, iterating to make things easier may or may not be sufficient to get the industry to take a second look at the project, and there is a chance that it may consume enough of the academic's time to ruin their career in academia. It's anecdata, but I have seen a few cases (e.g. Coccinelle) in which an academic essentially hides the fact that their contributions to e.g. an open-source project comes from academic research until after it has been battle-tested by industry.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoSometimes the academics aren't talking to each other, not out of spite, but just because they're in different fields. I recall from a computer vision class that some of the early CV researchers wasted a lot of time redeveloping math techniques that had already been developed by the photogrammetry people literally decades before.