pytel

I feel like a lot of the new products and research interests are just re-hashes, new implementations and domain applications of existing ideas. This is many times brought up in the computer science world as well, e.g. Slack (IRC was popular way before), Docker (containarization was a concept way before).

I play with the idea that such improvements keep us from truly advancing. In my book, a revolutionary advancement is for example going from steam era to electricity era.

I would love to read and discuss such revolutionary ideas around us. Is browsing the arxiv the way to go?