On Jun 26, 2:18 pm, cjkogan111 <cjkogan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is originality more important than usefulness when it comes to a > dissertation project?
Yes, from what I've seen in academia. > It feels like I have to come up with something obscure > that hardly anyone is going to use to develop something > that I feel could be useful to a range of people. A good way to solve the originality and usefulness criteria at the same time is to find a practical problem that needs solving (or a better solution if it is already handled by some hackery or something) and show how that maps into some obscure topic. Make progress on the topic, then show how that solves the problem. You'll get a lot of appreciation all around for that. > Secondly, I feel like this topic is focused. I mean, I could > start by just adding other distributions to the statistics toolbox. Well, it might be focused, but it is, unfortunately, definitely not original. best Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
