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Whence Systems Research? - by Ben Reinhardt - ARPA Riffing

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What the the heck is systems research? Why is it important? Why are we bad at it? How could we do better?

Whence Systems Research? What the the heck is systems research? Why is it important? Why are we bad at it? How could we do better? Ben Reinhardt Aug 11, 2022 15 5 2 Share I’ve struggled to articulate the flavor of research that PARPA does, and why it’s different from the profusion of research that we do see happening. I’ve hand-waved a bit at things that are “too researchy to be a startup and too engineering-heavy to be in academia” but this is not quite right — if things go to plan, some of the work we do will be collaborations with both startups and academia. Instead, the right phrase for wh

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