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All of the PhD students I know are constantly under "publish or perish" pressure, in addition to the open-ended research work--which usually is only as open as

All of the PhD students I know are constantly under "publish or perish" pressure, in addition to the open-ended research work--which usually is only as open as their advisor's pedigree and experience will allow. Industry seems to be much easier to get crazy ideas done in.

tedks 12y ago
And this is why academics are busy stomping out 3% speedups in arcane bullshit nobody cares about while startups and BigCorps are getting actual research done and pushing computing in new, exciting directions.