I have immense respect for researchers who venture in these type of disciplines. I don't think I would be able to do it. I do have a bit of a daring question: isn't there a slightly more fine-grained way to quantify that every nook and cranny of such a problem has indeed be researched by researchers? I simply assume that a rigorous research by the best minds of the world has happened, but I never see any data on it, not even anecdata.
I mean, I remember a post from Julia Evans, making a Ruby profiler, where she was astonished on how few people were actually working on it [1].
I suspect that in some cases, probably not this one, but in similar theoretical fields, a similar thing might be occuring. And if not, how do we test that? I'm probably not the only one who's curious.
[1] I found a talk of her in which she emphasizes on it:
> So the three myths that I want to start out by talking about are myth one-- to do something new and innovative you need to be an expert-- myth two-- if it were possible and worthwhile, someone would have done it already so you probably shouldn't try-- and three-- if you want to do a new open source project, you need to code a lot on the weekend and your evenings.
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/julia-evans-build-impos...
I mean, I remember a post from Julia Evans, making a Ruby profiler, where she was astonished on how few people were actually working on it [1].
I suspect that in some cases, probably not this one, but in similar theoretical fields, a similar thing might be occuring. And if not, how do we test that? I'm probably not the only one who's curious.
[1] I found a talk of her in which she emphasizes on it:
> So the three myths that I want to start out by talking about are myth one-- to do something new and innovative you need to be an expert-- myth two-- if it were possible and worthwhile, someone would have done it already so you probably shouldn't try-- and three-- if you want to do a new open source project, you need to code a lot on the weekend and your evenings.
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/julia-evans-build-impos...