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Comment by xorbax

Sure, peer review is peer review. It depends on your peers.

I'm a chemist, who has considerable established competition. So our reviwers know the systems and studied the method in grad school and sweated over it as a postdoc and had to innovate for cash in a professional capacity while doing something other than what we were doing.

They'd excoriate for vague methods, or poor explanations, or general nonsense. You had to explain everything and make sure to refence the Big boys you were close to but definitely not stealing from.

I think ML is unformed enough that there isn't that sort of public stricture as a random field in chemistry. Feel lucky. We don't even get to hide behind beautiful LaTeX, because there's too much benchwork for anybody's boss to ever give a fuck about it.

parent xorbax 3 years ago

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