> This is not exactly how it works in STEM, at least not around me You might want to take a different approach to reading papers then. No paper ever concludes

> This is not exactly how it works in STEM, at least not around me You might want to take a different approach to reading papers then. No paper ever concludes by saying "yeah our method is perfect and no further work is needed" [1]. Instead, every solution has its quirks and questions which need to be explored further. Maybe their method has limitations which make it unusable for your applications, maybe they make somewhat faulty assumptions that don't always hold, maybe they wrongly ignore some technique. Seeing how other people approach a problem can often give you inspiration for how to take it another way. [1] https://xkcd.com/2268/ https://xkcd.com/2268/