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Personally I've wanted a 1-page IEEE publication for a while that accepts smaller contributions, where people can share these kinds of insights. Just a "we trie

by bArray 6y ago

Personally I've wanted a 1-page IEEE publication for a while that accepts smaller contributions, where people can share these kinds of insights. Just a "we tried this, this is what happened" or "we were not able to repeat this" or "we found this interesting, but we need more data". You could argue it's kind of like a long abstract, but a long abstract really indicates you intend to probe it further, but in actual fact you might just want to indicate that there might be something there for somebody else.

Fishysoup 6y ago
People have been floating the idea of doing this for the life sciences too, where the cost of performing an experiment can be very high (animals, enzymes, local permitting and legal considerations etc. on top of the man hours). It would be very useful to see the results of an experiment you want to do(or something resembling it) but didn't follow up on it for whatever reason and would definitely accelerate research. And would probably help with the weird incentive structure and secrecy issues academia is pointlessly built around.
tastroder 6y ago
I'm not sure that would be a net benefit over research blogs or something like a technical report directly published by a lab/working group to be quite honest. In a few domains I've recently looked at these notes to the editor / commentary sections seem to only be pseudo-reviewed and I'd say the likelihood of an IEEE rubberstamped one pager on perpetual motion would be non-zero.
- bArray 6y ago
  > I'm not sure that would be a net benefit over research > blogs or something like a technical report directly > published by a lab/working group to be quite honest. I think this is kind of the problem, half of this stuff sits on a webpage somewhere completely unread and not really reference-able. > I'd say the likelihood of an IEEE rubberstamped one pager > on perpetual motion would be non-zero. I would hope that each single page would be reviewed with the same integrity as a six pager. Of course, it's not impossible crap leaks through to any conference/journal.
jvvw 6y ago
When I worked in crypto 20 years ago there was a journal like this which took papers that were only a few paragraphs long for quick results. I think it was called Electronics Letters.

by bArray 6y ago

Fishysoup 6y ago

People have been floating the idea of doing this for the life sciences too, where the cost of performing an experiment can be very high (animals, enzymes, local permitting and legal considerations etc. on top of the man hours). It would be very useful to see the results of an experiment you want to do(or something resembling it) but didn't follow up on it for whatever reason and would definitely accelerate research. And would probably help with the weird incentive structure and secrecy issues academia is pointlessly built around.

tastroder 6y ago

I'm not sure that would be a net benefit over research blogs or something like a technical report directly published by a lab/working group to be quite honest. In a few domains I've recently looked at these notes to the editor / commentary sections seem to only be pseudo-reviewed and I'd say the likelihood of an IEEE rubberstamped one pager on perpetual motion would be non-zero.

bArray 6y ago
> I'm not sure that would be a net benefit over research > blogs or something like a technical report directly > published by a lab/working group to be quite honest. I think this is kind of the problem, half of this stuff sits on a webpage somewhere completely unread and not really reference-able. > I'd say the likelihood of an IEEE rubberstamped one pager > on perpetual motion would be non-zero. I would hope that each single page would be reviewed with the same integrity as a six pager. Of course, it's not impossible crap leaks through to any conference/journal.

jvvw 6y ago

When I worked in crypto 20 years ago there was a journal like this which took papers that were only a few paragraphs long for quick results. I think it was called Electronics Letters.