PEOPLE PLEASE take the time to read through this
message.
Communication is an art that's hard
to master... This is pretty clear in this article regarding an age-old debate that still lingers on, and is certainly relevant for our research. It’s a wintery article, that is interesting at the same time... This
work has now exploded.
The idea is this: that perhaps more
groups (e.g., Europe) are starting to push the "understanding part"
of this topic more, so we need to establish
ourselves more in
that domain. We have to, somehow,
figure out a way to accelerate the development so that we can start cranking
out analyses and results on more realistic systems.
That's all!
This is something we have seen for a
while now in our data. Seems like the fractions work in a way to partially
cancel variability in their reciprocals.
What is also interesting in that
article is that it is the most highly cited
paper (right now it is at 900+ citations) - which we had an important part of
in terms of writing (it took almost a whole year to put together!!!).
I'm hoping we can keep on that sort
of tradition.
Bob and Jim are good friends of mine (and well established in their
fields) that always come up with very interesting approaches towards looking at
numbers. Many of the concepts come from
control/dynamical systems theory, and is a prime example of how one can advance
the state of the art in one field using techniques from another.
One more reason why breadth is so
important to have...
Bob is a good friend, and I knew he was working on
this for a while. If we can get the analysis ready
for more than one number, then they will use
it. Anyway, he is
waiting for us to respond and combine the best of both worlds so to speak. We
cannot delay too much though, as people are rapidly making their own numbers
and conclusions...
Its time in other words to think
what is the most impactful study and work, and aggressively attack it.
THANKS
