Too Much Information - by Ben Recht - arg min

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John Ioannidis’ latest bugbear is “extreme scientific productivity.” His team’s latest data crawl, written up in Nature last week, is worth a read. The study focused on Scopus-indexed journals, and I couldn’t help but think that this means they are missing the wild world of peer-reviewed computer science conferences. Someone should get John Ioannidis to replicate his study with AI papers! It wouldn’t be hard, as most of these proceedings are online in an easily scrapable format. Maybe I should do it over winter break. Extreme productivity has certainly gone haywire in AI, to the detriment of the scholars of the field. I want to understand it more deeply because we need to pull back from the brink. For context, allow me to recall my experience as a young scholar. I’m sure it’s not too different from others my age yelling at the children to get off their lawn. All the way through my first faculty gig at Wisconsin, I never sent more than one paper to N(eur)IPS per year. It would never hav

Too Much Information What if, hear me out, we are writing too many papers? Ben Recht Dec 19, 2023 144 62 17 Share John Ioannidis’ latest bugbear is “extreme scientific productivity.” His team’s latest data crawl, written up in Nature last week , is worth a read. The study focused on Scopus-indexed journals, and I couldn’t help but think that this means they are missing the wild world of peer-reviewed computer science conferences. Someone should get John Ioannidis to replicate his study with AI papers! It wouldn’t be hard, as most of these proceedings are online in an easily scrapable format. M

Too Much Information - by Ben Recht - arg min

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