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Comment author: evand 09 March 2015 04:14:43PM 1 point [-]

The difference between hardware that's fast enough to fit many iterations into a time span suitable for writing a paper vs. hardware that is slow enough that feedback is infrequent seems fairly relevant to how fast the software can progress.

New insights depend crucially on feedback gotten from trying out the old insights.