Re:The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics
by ivan_ah on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:05AM
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> They wouldn't get a reward for explaining someone else's paper clearly, but they could get a reward for writing a meta-review that would explain multiple papers clearly.
I see tremendous value for such work, and I think it is one of the biggest current bottlenecks in the sciences. We've got the cutting edge stuff happening in papers, and we've got 5-10 year old knowledge that makes it into textbooks, but in the middle there is nothing. Everyone is working on their own to catch up. We're talking thousands of grad students independently banding their heard agains the same problems...
If there were more "review journals" things would drastically improve. Maybe NSF could provide some funding for such efforts? Not sure what the metrics would be for this---not citations, we'd nee more like views or upvotes like on HN. The other option would be for grad students to self-organize into "reading clubs" on different subjects and share notes.
I see tremendous value for such work, and I think it is one of the biggest current bottlenecks in the sciences. We've got the cutting edge stuff happening in papers, and we've got 5-10 year old knowledge that makes it into textbooks, but in the middle there is nothing. Everyone is working on their own to catch up. We're talking thousands of grad students independently banding their heard agains the same problems...
If there were more "review journals" things would drastically improve. Maybe NSF could provide some funding for such efforts? Not sure what the metrics would be for this---not citations, we'd nee more like views or upvotes like on HN. The other option would be for grad students to self-organize into "reading clubs" on different subjects and share notes.