Certainly he seems impressed with the models understanding, but did it actually solve a standing problem? Did its suggestions actually work?
This is (also) outside my area of expertise, so need to see the idea verified by reality—or at least by professional consensus outside the project.
Mathematics (and mathematical physics, theoretical computer science, etc.) would be more clear-cut examples because any original ideas from the model could be objectively verified (without actually running experiments). Not to move the goalposts—novel insights in biology or chemistry would also count, its just hard for me to check whether they are significant, or whether models propose hundreds of ideas and most of them fail (e.g. the bottleneck is experimental resources).
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Certainly he seems impressed with the models understanding, but did it actually solve a standing problem? Did its suggestions actually work?
This is (also) outside my area of expertise, so need to see the idea verified by reality—or at least by professional consensus outside the project.
Mathematics (and mathematical physics, theoretical computer science, etc.) would be more clear-cut examples because any original ideas from the model could be objectively verified (without actually running experiments). Not to move the goalposts—novel insights in biology or chemistry would also count, its just hard for me to check whether they are significant, or whether models propose hundreds of ideas and most of them fail (e.g. the bottleneck is experimental resources).