A common but often undetected research problem
It's an important paper in a more general sense, as this kind of misapprehension is not unique to 'AI' research. Many moons ago a colleague and I came up with a novel approach to multiple redundancy in digital systems that initially looked to have quite an advantage when modelled using continuous math. However, being a cautious guy, I had it modelled again using discrete math (it could only be implemented physically in a discrete way). Sadly, that showed that the apparent advantage was not real as it 'occurred' between discrete digital states, so it could not exist in the real world.
Choosing appropriate frames of reference can be really hard where the problems under investigation are imperfectly specified.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
