On 29 March 2010 21:25, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > touche: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
Yes, Paul Graham really shouldn't pretend to speak on behalf of a whole culture. Also he clearly knows nothing about the research community he rails against in the same paper: "The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper." I guess he's not seen the proceedings of ISMIR, for example. Here's a rather extensive commentary: http://home.comcast.net/~dness/notes/graham5.html alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
