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> but most of them can be summarized as "academia is a lousy place to do novel research"

Completely agree. And the cache crypto example is a good example.

Especially in computing. There's so much red tape in the academic world that doesn't make sense when you're basically thinking or writing about code (ok, I know CS is not only about code, but what I'm saying also makes sense for things like big-O analysis, crypto, etc).



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