Mathieu Morey

I'm sorry Noam, but a blog post does not come close to meeting the standards of reproducibility, methodology, acknowledgment of prior work, and fair comparison with the state of the art, that a technical paper has to satisfy. Look, when you develop new technology under pressure to have short-term product impact, you just build the thing that you think is most likely to work as quickly as possible. If it's good enough, you deploy it. You may not care whether it's particularly innovative, whether it actually beats the state of the art, or whether it's a horrible kludge or The Right Thing to do in the long run. It's OK to delude yourself into thinking it's the best thing since slice bread, as long as your boss and the product people can also be deluded. But you know that's not how research works.