I’ve been happy to see an increase in funding for open source software across research areas and across funding bodies. However, I observed that a majority of funding from, say, the NSF, goes to projects that do not exist yet, and where the funding is supposed to create a new project, or to extend projects that are developed and used within a single...

Tldr; You probably shouldn’t be citing the "No Free Lunch" Theorem by Wolpert. If you’ve cited it somewhere, you might have used it to support the wrong conclusion. What it actually (vaguely) says is “You can’t learn from data without making assumptions”. The paper on the “No Free Lunch Theorem”, actually called "The Lack of A Priori Distinctions Between...