A really fantastic article overall. I was never personally at risk of academia, so I don't resonate with that part of the article. But I particularly liked these two sentences for their practical insight:
that process of taking qualitative ideas and struggling to represent them computationally is the core of artificial intelligence (AI).
and
that path from research to product rarely works, and when it does it's because a company is built with research at its core
Thanks! It seems like an obvious thing, but thinking about "operationalizing" intuitions computationally really helped me hone in on what I should be focusing on with research. My advisor Dan Klein was really awesome at teaching that.
that process of taking qualitative ideas and struggling to represent them computationally is the core of artificial intelligence (AI).
and
that path from research to product rarely works, and when it does it's because a company is built with research at its core