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'Proper engineers' often have no interest in actually understanding the underlying processes, which would make for more than iterative improvements. Industry ca
by selimthegrim 3y ago
'Proper engineers' often have no interest in actually understanding the underlying processes, which would make for more than iterative improvements. Industry can fund iterative improvements. Source: Marc Baldo telling me to wait until my paper was published/on the arXiv and then he would 'look at it', while in the meantime trashing simulations and theory in his press releases.
- casparvitch 3y agoFair enough. The point of my comment was the incentives are set up in 'science' to research fundamentals (I don't think there are many interesting fundamentals in degradation, but I may be wrong). I am arguing there should be a separate stream of funding/researchers with incentives to work on other types of problems. Scientists tend to be interested in 'neat cool solutions' or 'neat cool problems' and there should be separate funding for 'important problems with boring solutions' that sits separately to current science funding. I agree leave the small-scale iteration to industry.