Hi, It seems to me that if this project has even 1/10 of the impact that the earlier work had, then it will still be one of the most significant contributions to the state of the art.
-Robin Barooah On Jan 21, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Peter Franta wrote: > Agreed. It is sad, if only there was a way to get the Horse to drink once it > has been led to the water. > > It would be great if this sort of stuff went main stream. Lets hope it leads > to implementations that the world can't ignore! > > P > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > On 21 January 2012 15:11, Peter Franta <pmfra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > VPRI answer to their Government and Private Funders, not those of us who > > have the fortune to observe as they go. > > Government-funded is publically funded. I'm disappointed that public > funding rules apparently impose nothing more than an annual report on > publically-funded research programs. > > > It is my understanding the deliverable is not a "product" but "lessons > > learned" to go and do it for real! Not ideal for us but then they're not > > serving us. > > If they're government-funded they're serving the US taxpayer. > Admittedly I'm not a US citizen, but heck, I contribute to the > revenues of plenty of US corporations, on which they presumably pay > tax. And I said nothing about product, but I'll get to that later. > > > Clearly this doesn't match your expectations. This is frustrating to you but > > are your expectations their concern? Where do these expectations come from? > > It matches my expectations all too well: brilliant research looking > like it will be flushed down history's toilet like so much other > brilliant research before it. > > > Popular/Successful <> Better. > > Exactly. If it were the same, it wouldn't be necessary to popularise > better research in order to make it successful. Good stuff doesn't > drive out bad by sheer superiority, sadly. > > Simply doing good research is not enough. If it were we'd be decades > ahead in computing, and centuries in other fields. > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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