Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public...
by orbifold on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:55AM
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In academia there always is a difference between the way results are advertised and what conclusions are drawn internally. This is more true in some fields than others, I'm most familiar with it ML, Physics. Part of your skill as a researcher is to understand based on omissions, the datasets etc. the quiet part that isn't said out loud. Depending how you sell things you can get a Nature / Science paper with confusing inconsistent terminology, hand rolled C++ implementation, provided you are the first and a another method which might be 1000x times faster will only make it into PRL (yes I'm thinking of two specific papers, but won't say which).
Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public...
by cyanydeez on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:27AM
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There's probably space for a startup that properly archives the technical nature of findings.
Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public...
by paufernandez on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:32PM
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+1
Your results replicate, or they don't. Your calculations, equations, and models predict experiment. Or they don't.
Writing papers about it and getting the feedback of "peers" is nothing more than an old fashioned circle jerk for padding resumes, CVs, and persuading other people in that academic hierarchy that you deserve funding. It is a game that is divorced from actually learning, researching, understanding, measuring, and predicting the world.