This comment is particularly interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16541610 …
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A remarkably informative Hacker News comment section, on the culture of research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16535620 … Not just a standard rehash of woes, but many insightful tidbits.
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I can very much relate to the Googler who feels they got more done in their 20% time than trying to get funding in academia.
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I believe that a lot of this soul searching over science comes from an overly idealistic conception of what science is. If one sees it as a uniquely noble pursuit of truth one is bound to be disappointed by the messy human reality of it.
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These are great perspectives; thanks for sharing. I empathize- the company I recently co-founded is entirely motivated around the long-term self-funding of our employee’s research because of difficulties like this.
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