Thanks for the feedback. I see why people are in general pushing me in a different direction. Cheers, Clark
On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---