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10 Aug 09
Why do we still publish scientific papers?
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Right now, there are between one and two million articles being published in the ~24,000 scholarly journals. Even if you stayed close to your own field, way too many to read for a single person.
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After someone else has already done the job of ranking journals for other purposes, it's no surprise people only look at how many papers someone has in what journals, and rank them accordingly.
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02 Aug 09
Why I hardly ever blog about my ongoing research
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Working without pressure on your own ideas is essential for science.
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You commit to ideas before you had a chance of fighting self-delusion. Psychologists will tell you that once you write down and explain a position, you tend to stick with it. It is irrational, but true.
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16 Jun 09
Rise of the Data Scientist | FlowingData
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you'd know that by statisticians, he actually meant it as a general title for someone who is able to extract information from large datasets and then present something of use to non-data experts.
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24 Oct 08
The problem with unidimensional research
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People hide the trade-offs because the negative points make their papers less likely to be accepted.
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I believe this is the main reason why practitioners ignore researchers. Researchers paint a severely distorted view of the world.
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22 Oct 08
Overcoming Bias: Academics in Clown Suits
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Academics are well aware that these norms are relatively arbitrary, but usually assume that similar norms do not influence the content of their talks or papers. But I strongly suspect that not only are some presentation formats considered too silly to be taken seriously, the same also applies to many topics
19 Oct 08
为什么大家都努力，最终却有更多的人不成功？ | Pure Pleasure - Reborn
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因为懒惰没有技术上的解决办法。
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大多数人既然是人就继承了作为生物而应该天生拥有的进化本能和进化能力。长久的观察使我得出一个结论，大多数学生实际上是勤奋的，他们并不懒惰，他们只是花费了很多时间精力却没有收获而已。过分简单地把最终的收获归结于“勤奋”，而把颗粒无收归结于“懒惰”，只不过是于事无补的空洞评论而已，不为解决问题提供任何线索。
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18 Oct 08
How do you know that you are right?
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- What you state is factually correct.
- Many people know or appreciate your work.
- The performance of your tool or system is competitive with respect to some measure.
- You are getting a lot done.
- You are making a lot of money.
Doing well can mean several things:
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For most tasks we accomplish, no quantitative measure is satisfying
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