What Daniel Lemire thinks about ideas vs execution

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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1. 20 Sept 2026

   Our readingScientific and academic evaluation will shift away from published papers as the measure of output, toward valuing real-world results.

   Their wordsI predict that, over time, the focus will move away from "papers as the final output."

   ↗AI is breaking the academic sorting machinelemire.me 3rd of 3 in this piece