> Just because you saw the problem first doesn’t buy you the right to providing the only solution.
Of course. But if you're going to provide a new solution to a problem, you'd better be able to compare and contrast your solution to the old one. If you can't do that, there's no reason to take your solution seriously because you haven't done your homework.
For example let's say you come up with an ingenious solution to tracking a moving object in the presence of uncertainty. Here's what you can say and be taken seriously:
"My solution uses an improved version of a Type X Kalman filter that works as follows."
Or
"My solution does not use a Kalman filter because Kalman filters won't work for this problem for the following reasons."
Here's what you should not say if you want to be taken seriously:
Of course. But if you're going to provide a new solution to a problem, you'd better be able to compare and contrast your solution to the old one. If you can't do that, there's no reason to take your solution seriously because you haven't done your homework.
For example let's say you come up with an ingenious solution to tracking a moving object in the presence of uncertainty. Here's what you can say and be taken seriously:
"My solution uses an improved version of a Type X Kalman filter that works as follows."
Or
"My solution does not use a Kalman filter because Kalman filters won't work for this problem for the following reasons."
Here's what you should not say if you want to be taken seriously:
"What's a Kalman filter?"