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Good 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
by jmilloy 14y ago
Good 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.