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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by eru on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @07:59AM (#43012247)
Even worse: you didn't just think so in private, but you decided to publish your 'great' discovery.
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by fooker on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:02PM (#43015948)
The blame is on the reviewers.

This is why peer review exists. One can not known everything themselves. It's fairly common for CS paper submissions to reinvent algorithms and then tone down the claims after reviewers suggest that variants already exist.

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