<p>People love to characterize academics as out of touch but this thread (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507312" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">2507312</span></a>) is a good example of smart industry people trying to figure out the shape of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span>’s bicameral elephant (<a href="https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bicameral-not-homoiconic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">parentheticallyspeaking.org/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticles/bicameral-not-homoiconic/</span></a>) by poking around in the dark.</p>