On 8/11/13 12:48 PM, David Lee wrote:
> Look to other fields of science or engineering. You get in the
> Nightly news if you have a new Dark Matter paper, but if you're
> working on optimizing particulate flow of grains in a conveyer you
> won't be noticed except maybe in Corn Monthly. But who is going to
> feed the world ?
The part that worries me is that we have papers on optimizing
particulate flows of grains - a very nice metaphor, in fact - but not
nearly so many people eager to implement those improvements.
People are instead eager to implement, er, dark matter.
On the bright side, I think the paper you presented on XML and JSON
comparisons
<http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol10-Lee01.html>
may have some impact on those priorities.
Thanks,
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/
