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This thread is like a broken pencil: pointless.
Morituri:
Today I spent three completely unproductive hours with a patent attorney.
I invented a technique. The technique works (better than alternatives anyway). I know exactly why I thought that it would. I know what problem I had identified and why this technique does not suffer that problem. And I cannot find any way to map that problem, or that reasoning, onto English words to explain the invention to other people.
What was supposed to be a business meeting turned out to be more like an elaborate, embarrassing, frustrating disproof of Sapir-Whorf.
I don't know how many of you have ever played Zendo. There's this moment where your brain has twigged on a pattern, and you can correctly identify groupings as being in accordance with the pattern or not, but you have not yet found a way to articulate the pattern. Where you can correctly mark group after group after group, but you can't state what rule classifies them? I. Am. Living. In. That. Moment.
On the plus side it was nice to not be thinking about elections today.
cybersmurf:
I wonder how many patents were not registered because somebody couldn't put it into words well enough.
Jimor:
I have my own "could it be a patent, or is it a process that lies outside the system?" thing. Haven't touched it in a few years, though. Interesting process.
LeeC:
Blue Kitty:
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