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Context for us uneducated?
Step 1. Have an idea
Step 2. Google idea
Step 3. Someone thought of it before you were born
Even worse if you think your idea is just the best darn thing to come along since sliced bread. And then Dr. 1995 comes along and lays out the whole thing in a footnote in a paper on a different topic.
Which most likely is written in much more detail than you ever could do.
Step 3b: it's a deceptively simple idea that someone else already thought of a while ago, that everyone agreed was a great idea, but actually implementing it is so impractical that no one wants to do it.
I had a thing like this recently, though I'm struggling to remember what it was.
I remember mine! It was in regards to finding out if people went through life with varying resting frame rates for vision and I wanted to know the bell curve.
My thought was whether people see the same patterns in fan oscillations when adjusting for speeds with a light behind it. I just wondered if people saw the same patterns as me mostly.
From my discord chat, I'm usually drunk by the time it devolves this far. This was a week before arguing whether non-verbal communication counted as words. Nope. Words require language with grammar. Signs, signers suck it. Gesture? We eventually and reluctantly settled on symbol... People just need to make up new words more often rather than having to argue semantics constantly.
Step 3 doesn't need to be before you were born, just a seemingly long time ago. 1995 definitely wouldn't be before the person in the picture was born.
Nearly all of the grad students today were born after 95
I don't think any context is needed, it's just about when you have an idea that you think is great and novel but it turns out it has already been done 30 years prior.
Appreciate it. Thought it was a specific reference and i don't know who the person in the shot is
you have a genius giga brain blast moment, you feel like the most intelligent person on the world, and you immediately google it.
Only to find that it's been a thing for the last 50 years and nobody seems to care about it...
Okay thanks, thought i missed something that was being referenced
yeah no you're not missing out on anything except despair lol
Oh no. No no no. That ive got in spades. Feel free to steal as much of it as you want from me, it won't be missed if you do
fair enough, i've got plenty myself though, maybe you can sell it someone else.