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Application usefulness is more valuable than technique novelty
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You mean you prefer short term (somewhat) sure gains over risky long-term bets? Are you sure about this?
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Many important applications (healthcare for example) are definitely not short-term, and may also require substantial technical novelty to solve issues around causality and robustness. Yet, the application then serves to 'ground' the technical contribution.
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it's more important to use fire to cook foods and keep warm than a novelty way to start fire.
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Kinda breaks the fundamental research paradigm doesn't it? ... You can't necessarily always think of an application to justify the value of a novel technique. Or are you saying that the value of a technique changes as useful applications are found?
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Yeah, tell that to R2.... :D
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What is the value of technique novelty? Exploring the solution space? Perhaps the technique is not the most useful (efficient) for the given application. But it might lead to new discoveries down the road.
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depends
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If science is to be considered and there's a concrete tradeoff: usefulness *xor* novelty, I'd go with novelty. Applying techniques can be done by companies (who have a lot of incentive to do that) and just applying known methods does not contribute much for our understandings
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sure it does. it will make you understand just how poorly these "general novel methods" perform on real problems.
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