toastyCheese

I am a current PhD student in a CS-related field. My advisors had strict requirements for my first project, but now on my second project I have complete freedom. This was my personal choice, my advisors were/are willing to give me projects, but I wanted to learn how to take a research project from idea to finish. Obviously, CS (and my school) is extremely well funded, so this may be unique.

The entire point of academia is to extend the current state of knowledge. When judging if a paper is extending knowledge, the reader must understand 1) what the prior work is and 2) how the author has extended prior work. Without citing prior work, how is the reader supposed to tell what the author has done new?

Not only that, reproducibility is core to research. Without having detailed records of where ideas are originating (i.e., citations) research is much less reproducible.

There are actually many examples of papers getting accepted because the authors claim something new by using new terminology, but ignore all prior work in the field. The reviewers are not experts in that subfield, so they accept the paper without realizing it is not novel.

I have a mild case of Crohn's. My doctor has put me on Humira and it is a miracle drug. Ever since starting the medicine I have been in remission (5+ years).

I find staying active and eating healthy diets also really helps.

If this was $10 this would be the biggest steal ever. That is ridiculously cheap for this device. The device actually costs $129 (with pre-order) or $169. The $10 is just to reserve a pre-order spot/raise money for the company.