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>Academia has serious problems at its core, and in a lot of places, it's obvious that startups and industry is outpacing it. Let's be realistic here. How many
by tensor 13y ago
>Academia has serious problems at its core, and in a lot of places, it's obvious that startups and industry is outpacing it.
Let's be realistic here. How many startups actually do any sort of research at all? By my estimates, the number is very close to zero.
How many places in industry? You can cite the big labs, but the majority of science is still done by universities. While academia has serious problems, lets not fool ourselves into thinking that industry is any kind of substitute.
- fossuser 13y agoI'd agree that startups aren't doing much research in general, but larger companies (Microsoft, Google) have pretty impressive research organizations and do a lot of good work. Apple does too, but unfortunately they lean towards keeping everything a trade secret rather than publishing (excluding their patents I suppose)
- tolmasky 13y agoTo some degree it depends what you consider research. I agree startups and "the industry" are 1) not necessarily publishing, and 2) not doing work in a way that matches the procedural standards of traditional research, but a lot of new ideas are being experimented. Does git count as important research? Does CoffeeScript?
- auggierose 13y agoGit: Yes; CoffeeScript: No;