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That last 10% generally has long payoff. The rewards of that paper feel immediate, but the code on GitHub will be useful to people for years. (The paper also has a long payoff. It also a short, which GitHub didn’t here.)

> Getting stuff out there to be noticed is difficult, a lot of work, and going the the last 10% does not guarantee any more success.

This is true. It’s still a bet. It could have wildly high expected value and still turn up a 0. But doing nothing guarantees you won’t have more success.



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