← Back to context Comment by anonymousDan 2 days ago I love the passion and bitchiness of the researchers. 4 comments anonymousDan Reply ggm 2 days ago As a story arc for a forthcoming film? Sure. But I'm reminded of the comp sci aphorism: physics advanced by standing on the shoulders of giants.. CS by standing on each other's toes. throwaway422432 1 day ago Max Planck's "Science advances one funeral at a time" could be applied here. defrost 2 days ago Albeit that standing on the shoulders of giants was a primo bitchy jab that likened Robert Hooke to a dwarf who rode on the shoulders of true giants.https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on...https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/... bell-cot 1 day ago In a way, yes.OTOH, they seem like the sort of odious, dysfunctional elites who the French claim to have purged back in the 1790's.
ggm 2 days ago As a story arc for a forthcoming film? Sure. But I'm reminded of the comp sci aphorism: physics advanced by standing on the shoulders of giants.. CS by standing on each other's toes. throwaway422432 1 day ago Max Planck's "Science advances one funeral at a time" could be applied here. defrost 2 days ago Albeit that standing on the shoulders of giants was a primo bitchy jab that likened Robert Hooke to a dwarf who rode on the shoulders of true giants.https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on...https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/...
throwaway422432 1 day ago Max Planck's "Science advances one funeral at a time" could be applied here.
defrost 2 days ago Albeit that standing on the shoulders of giants was a primo bitchy jab that likened Robert Hooke to a dwarf who rode on the shoulders of true giants.https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on...https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/...
bell-cot 1 day ago In a way, yes.OTOH, they seem like the sort of odious, dysfunctional elites who the French claim to have purged back in the 1790's.
As a story arc for a forthcoming film? Sure. But I'm reminded of the comp sci aphorism: physics advanced by standing on the shoulders of giants.. CS by standing on each other's toes.
Max Planck's "Science advances one funeral at a time" could be applied here.
Albeit that standing on the shoulders of giants was a primo bitchy jab that likened Robert Hooke to a dwarf who rode on the shoulders of true giants.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on...
https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/...
In a way, yes.
OTOH, they seem like the sort of odious, dysfunctional elites who the French claim to have purged back in the 1790's.