I'm reading the author's PhD thesis at the moment, which he seems to have successfully applied to some modelling projects.
I'd imagine the most significant aspect of this betrayal of PhD students, as far as it exists, is to polarise the domain along research lines that never very clearly mapped to the perennial objectives of modelling or mere curve-fitting. Had a thread of 'modelling science' been retained then it would always be useful.
Businesses may, at the moment, appear to have been confused into the value of curve-fitting --- the generic skills of algorithm design, scientific modelling, and the like, will survive the next wave of business scam.
I'd imagine the most significant aspect of this betrayal of PhD students, as far as it exists, is to polarise the domain along research lines that never very clearly mapped to the perennial objectives of modelling or mere curve-fitting. Had a thread of 'modelling science' been retained then it would always be useful.
Businesses may, at the moment, appear to have been confused into the value of curve-fitting --- the generic skills of algorithm design, scientific modelling, and the like, will survive the next wave of business scam.