Comment by gessha

Reviving old ideas and comparing them to SOTA is not necessarily bad especially if they provide benefits over the SOTA model. It brings the old ideas into the community idea cache if you will. It’s somewhat annoying if the authors do it thinking it’s a novel idea when it fact it’s a 20-30 year old one.

This reminds me of some HN comments about rocketry ideas and in the thread one of the comments was “Everything in rocket science has been theorized/tried by some Russian scientist 40-50 years ago” and it still gives me a chuckle.