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Not sure what you're getting at. Google itself was started by two PhD students who are on semi-permanent "long-term absence".
by yid 14y ago
Not sure what you're getting at. Google itself was started by two PhD students who are on semi-permanent "long-term absence".
- sliverstorm 14y agosure what you're getting at I imagine your parent was commenting on this statement: a PhD is a poor metric of intelligence Making the observation that, whether or not it is a metric of intelligence, PhDs certainly get to work on some pretty cool things.
- fixxer 14y agoThe only point I was trying to make was that execution of an idea in the market is so much more impressive (and gratifying) than credentials. PhDs, like MBAs, get more credit than they deserve.
- rayiner 14y agoAnd my point is that most of those ideas that get executed in the market aren't very impressive. I was a lot more impressed with SRI's machine learning technology, then Summly's execution of that technology in an iPhone app. That's a great case of the "entrepreneur" getting more credit than he deserved when the PhD's were the one that create real value.
- fixxer 14y ago"Real value" requires a market, otherwise it is just chalk talk. Summly's execution is far more impressive to me for the simple fact that they actually executed it.
- rayiner 14y agoSome other kid would've come along and figured out how to use that technology to sell ads for cheap Chinese crap. Some kid wouldn't have come along and invented the technology in the first place.
- fixxer 14y agoPresumptuous. You make execution/implementation sound so easy. I find your stance confusing (JD not floating your boat? I see you aren't an academic). I'm actually in a PhD program at a top 3 engineering school and I'm frustrated as hell by what I encounter.