I’m glad to see this post come out. I’ve previously opined that solving these kinds of problems is what proves a field has become paradigmatic:
Paradigms gain their status because they are more successful than their competitors in solving a few problems that the group of practitioners has come to recognize as acute. ––Thomas Kuhn
It has been proven many times across scientific fields that a method that can solve these proxy tasks is more likely to achieve an application. The approaches sketched out here seem like a particularly good fit for a large lab like GDM, because the North Star can be somewhat legible and the team has enough resources to tackle a series of proxy tasks that are relevant and impressive. Not that it would be a bad fit elsewhere either.
I’m glad to see this post come out. I’ve previously opined that solving these kinds of problems is what proves a field has become paradigmatic:
It has been proven many times across scientific fields that a method that can solve these proxy tasks is more likely to achieve an application. The approaches sketched out here seem like a particularly good fit for a large lab like GDM, because the North Star can be somewhat legible and the team has enough resources to tackle a series of proxy tasks that are relevant and impressive. Not that it would be a bad fit elsewhere either.