This is so vapidly specious: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-basic-science-1445613954 …. I'm surprised people are even linking to it.pic.twitter.com/Yz2IPhxGUX
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Or the transistor. Apart from Bardeen's developments in quantum mechanics, the development of germanium diodes, etc., tinkering!
More broadly, his idea that inventions can be analyzed in isolation and attributed to any single causal factor misunderstands progress.
@patrickc this passage is especially irritating because these parallel inventions happen precisely because of the shared foundational work.
@avibryant @patrickc Possibly more sensible conclusion: those who do the foundational work don't tend to capture the wealth produced by the…
@patrickc its stuff like this that convinces me we aren't spending nearly as much on US education
@patrickc :-) Good thing also that Google didn't use ivory tower ideas like Markov chains and their convergence properties, tf-idf, etc...
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