What are some scientific discoveries of the last 20 years that aren’t getting enough attention?
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Work on causal inference has received much attention over the past 20 years, but it's still very underrated. In a thousand years it will look like the revolution in probability & statistics in the first half of the twentieth century. My short survey: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/ …
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(Note: I very much doubt the theory has reached a mature form. In that sense, it's also like probability and statistics in the early part of the 20th century.)
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Lots of causal inference work was tested at scale in private areas, EG Facebook. Some of those folks have moved onto academia (
, @deaneckles). (This is my rough impression from being social with Dean. Does that line up with what you may know better?) -
I just mean: causal inference doesn't seem to me to be in a mature form, no more than, say, probability theory was before Kolmogorov 1933 (say). Similarly, neural nets are used at scale in lots of companies, yet we know almost nothing about them & are decades away from doing so
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I concluded from a recent research project that while it is an awesome idea and theory, practical implementations (e.g. useful libraries) are essentially non-existent
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Yeah, it still seems very early.
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