• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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      Step 1. Have an idea

      Step 2. Google idea

      Step 3. Someone thought of it before you were born

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        Even worse if you think your idea is just the best darn thing to come along since sliced bread. And then Dr. 1995 comes along and lays out the whole thing in a footnote in a paper on a different topic.

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          Which most likely is written in much more detail than you ever could do.

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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        Step 3b: it’s a deceptively simple idea that someone else already thought of a while ago, that everyone agreed was a great idea, but actually implementing it is so impractical that no one wants to do it.

        I had a thing like this recently, though I’m struggling to remember what it was.

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          I remember mine! It was in regards to finding out if people went through life with varying resting frame rates for vision and I wanted to know the bell curve.

          My thought was whether people see the same patterns in fan oscillations when adjusting for speeds with a light behind it. I just wondered if people saw the same patterns as me mostly.

          From my discord chat, I’m usually drunk by the time it devolves this far. This was a week before arguing whether non-verbal communication counted as words. Nope. Words require language with grammar. Signs, signers suck it. Gesture? We eventually and reluctantly settled on symbol… People just need to make up new words more often rather than having to argue semantics constantly.

          They’ve done lots of light flash experiments and recognition with millisecond speed stuff flashing, but I wonder if they’re trying to compare ‘frame rate’ off. It sorta mentioned it in some shitty article that was hoity toity filmmaker whining and quickly devolved into false assumptions therefore…

          But I wonder if they’ve had people draw fan patterns as it changes speeds or if it’s the same for everyone.

          My desk fan has led lights behind it and 3 speeds. If I turn the light on and switch speed it forms certain patterns as it revs up then hits the ‘proper’ speed. I wonder if people see the patterns differently as it revs up and down.

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        Step 3 doesn’t need to be before you were born, just a seemingly long time ago. 1995 definitely wouldn’t be before the person in the picture was born.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I don’t think any context is needed, it’s just about when you have an idea that you think is great and novel but it turns out it has already been done 30 years prior.

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        Appreciate it. Thought it was a specific reference and i don’t know who the person in the shot is

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      you have a genius giga brain blast moment, you feel like the most intelligent person on the world, and you immediately google it.

      Only to find that it’s been a thing for the last 50 years and nobody seems to care about it…