{"id":15942,"date":"2015-04-14T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2015-04-14T22:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T03:15:52","slug":"the-long-nose-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15942","title":{"rendered":"The long nose, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the following comment by Vasco on my post the other day about the relationship between University research and the research done at for-profit corporations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nP(You spending time) << P(google spending time)\nP(You doing research) << P(google research rezults)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird to me that people might think this is actually the relevant concept.  Because it doesn&#8217;t come even close to describing the underlying value proposition.<\/p>\n<p>When you use Google maps, and a server smoothly delivers a collection of power-of-two resolution image tiles that your web client then assembles into differently scaled views, do you really think that those algorithms originated at Google?<\/p>\n<p>It is rarely the case that the fundamental work behind a product originated at a major corporation.  Major corporations exist primarily to develop techniques and approaches into robust and viable products &#8212; a process which takes an enormous amount of focus and hard work by many people.  Those corporations do not exist primarily to be the source of entirely new concepts.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that Vasco is not taking into account is <i>when<\/i> time was spent, and the cumulative power of the decades of influences from the time an idea was first introduced to the time when it it ready for commercial deployment.<\/p>\n<p>More on this tomorrow.  But meanwhile I will leave you with a brilliant chart by Bill Buxton, which will be the subject of tomorrow&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/long_nose.png\" width=450><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the following comment by Vasco on my post the other day about the relationship between University research and the research done at for-profit corporations: P(You spending time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15948,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions\/15948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}