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This title is horrible hyperbole. Science is more than just machine learning. Hell, even if we just constrain ourselves to "computer science" probably half of i
by tensor 9y ago
This title is horrible hyperbole. Science is more than just machine learning. Hell, even if we just constrain ourselves to "computer science" probably half of it is just math, for which the scientific paper is definitely not "obsolete" nor even deficient in any way.
But outside of computer science you need laboratories to replicate experiments. Scientific papers are perfectly fine vehicles to record the necessary information to replicate experiments in this setting. Historically appendices are used for the extended details. And yes, replication is hard, but it's part of science.
- dang 9y agoOK, we'll hypobolize the title a bit. But it would be better to react to the substance of the article, which is more interesting.
- jacobolus 9y agoWhat makes you think math papers wouldn’t benefit from having interactive bits in the middle? Obviously isn’t relevant for all math papers, but often would be extremely helpful. I read a lot of technical papers, and it is quite frequent that I will need to spend an hour or two decoding some formal mathematical statements whose basic idea/intuition could be more clearly conveyed pictorially in a few minutes. Of course, making interactive diagrams often takes dramatically more work than sketching pictures with a pen (or just writing down equations), and mathematicians are not typically trained to do it, so it would be an uphill slog for many. But I would love it if there was more funding/prestige/etc. available for mathematicians to make their papers more accessible by adding better visuals.