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I love the passion and bitchiness of the researchers.

• ggm 1y ago
  As a story arc for a forthcoming film? Sure. But I'm reminded of the comp sci aphorism: physics advanced by standing on the shoulders of giants.. CS by standing on each other's toes.
  • defrost 1y ago
    Albeit that standing on the shoulders of giants was a primo bitchy jab that likened Robert Hooke to a dwarf who rode on the shoulders of true giants. https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/ https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on... https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/dp/0226520862 https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/...
  • throwaway422432 1y ago
    Max Planck's "Science advances one funeral at a time" could be applied here.
• bell-cot 1y ago
  In a way, yes. OTOH, they seem like the sort of odious, dysfunctional elites who the French claim to have purged back in the 1790's.