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Re:AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis' by konschubert on Sunday February 17, 2019 @09:08AM (#19184510)
It's possible you're right, but that's not what people were saying IIRC.
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Re:AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis' by throwawaymath on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:30PM (#19185595)
That's exactly what they were saying. Go read the thread again. They were being prescriptive of academic careers, not descriptive of the author's inherent merit as a researcher.
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Re:AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis' by hprotagonist on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:55PM (#19186846)
and to recurse a layer, i’m being descriptive of the prescriptivists that i know to exist and i easily believe did that guy in.
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