Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by bitL on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:21PM (#17182629)

What's the point of journals these days, especially in computing with reproducible results (i.e. authors publish a paper on arxiv, code & dataset on github)?

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by nunya213 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:25PM (#17182657)

Reproducible results? lol. A fraction of researchers actually put out code and data freely, definitely not a majority.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by fourthark on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @08:36PM (#17183952)

And even when it's out, does the code actually run?

Designing your code and data so it's truly reproducible is a ton of work, and most researchers are focused on the paper.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by Vinnl on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:56AM (#17186157)

As a researcher, you can get a stamp of having had an article published in a certain journal, which helps your career.

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