Sunday, June 10, 2012

Publishing or Perishing Ideas

We were all born to a time of ideas, as ideas were born to us. We reclaimed scraps , bits and pieces of the science that has been left behind from great thinkers. We have learned to expand upon that work and build as we go along. The idea was to grown in inkling of freedom in terms of thinking, where we hadn't been marred by thousands of pages of what people have already done. Sometimes if not often leaving us with very little to be enthusiastic about and lot lesser to challenge to rectify. The methods haven't grown but the software have, the tools have become simpler and the data sets have become larger in some sense. Though I seriously question the notion of incremental research, it's still research isn't it?       



For those who have lurked the hallways of graduate life, and worked hours in continuation. I earnestly believe you realize the concept  "Every day is a working day". For people who love to experiment I applaud the man hours and the effort to understand hypothesis and the build blocks of science, and for those who keep looking for answers in mathematical models, there's always more simulations to run and get better at. I always wondered is it still science of what we hand out is still pieces of application only tailored to our needs?
                                                We were born to a time of ideas, and yet those are the only things we never work with sometime. For the few who cherish the birth of something new, I applaud your courage and the willingness to go the extra mile. And for those who are buried under literature reviews, and poster competitions, life oddly isn't all about "Publish or Perish", it perishing without something worth wile. In the annals of academia and halls that are decked with grand gestures in science and applications, I find a great divide between intellectual freedom of what can be achieved and what is sometimes allowed to be achieved. For the few who believe that their R(squared) results are statistically significant, I am happy they find happiness in the conclusions that we derive. As far as the rest of the world is concerned science has gone askew from real life , the models don't fit and for the buried souls in energy drinks and coffee alike, there's nothing more enthralling than an idea.

And for the readers who can identify this better, and I quote "What is the most resilient parasite?
An idea, Resilient. Highly contagious"
 Hope we all get infected.

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