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When my other half was going through her PhD, she was attempting to implement a signal processing approach to construct grids for FEM. Eventually adding some co
by wheaties 14y ago
When my other half was going through her PhD, she was attempting to implement a signal processing approach to construct grids for FEM. Eventually adding some constraints led to an acceptable result. As she presented her findings at a conference the author of the paper eagerly questioned her about her approach. Why? He had never gotten it to work and failed to mention that next to the glowing praise heaped upon the technique.
- jmilloy 14y agoGood thing he published then! It may have been a long time before someone thought of the approach and ironed out all of the implementation details. This sounds like exactly how science progresses... incrementally building on the work of others.
- joe_the_user 14y agoIt seems like one should say "that's how scholarly research progresses". To be science as such it seems like one has to do some verification as well as some speculation.
- dmpk2k 14y agoAlternatively, such a paper could lead many a reader to implement a dead end. Each assumes they did it wrong, and after much wrangling, silently move on. Later, the next intellectual victim comes along.